I read a great book recently - Bees, A Natural History, and after much research I decided to do a watercolour illustration of the Teddy Bear Bee, Amegilla bombiformis. I was interested to see if there were any bumblebees native to Australia, which there isn't, save for a feral population in Tasmania. But the Teddy Bear Bee is Australia's next best thing, even the species name 'bombiformis' refers to its superficial similarity to the genus Bombus - the bumblebees.