A worker stingless bee on the rim of its colony's entrance tube. Stingless bees (tribe Meliponini) build these tubes at the mouth of the nest from cerumen, a mixture of wax and plant resin. The species has not been identified.
Prasat Rong Lmung, Angkor, Siem Reap
Three workers in the mouth of the entrance tube, which leads back into the nest cavity.
Prasat Rong Lmung, Angkor, Siem Reap
Photographed at Rong Lmung (ប្រាសាទរោងរមុង), a pair of small brick towers between the moats of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom.
Stingless bees recorded in Cambodia and Laos: Lee et al. (2016), Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. Abstract