I’ve never seen these before this year and was thrilled to finally catch a few shots where the bee was visible, mostly I’ve seen them buried in squash blossoms.
Numbats are an Australian marsupial found in the continents west. They primarily eat termites, and as such need a well adapted tongue to do so. The Numbat needs to keep its tongue well coated in a sticky saliva, allowing them to catch up to 20,000 termites in a day.