This video shows an Australian stingless native beehive being split to make two hives. These Australian native bees are called Tetragonula carbonaria, but there are over 1500 different varieties of ...
If the governments of Australia can invest millions into the honeybee industry, they surely have the resources to support ...
Research from Monash University explores how rising temperatures and growing urban environments can affect behavior in native ...
A few years ago, wild bee ecologist Kit Prendergast was searching for pollinators of an endangered wildflower when she spotted a strange bee. “I discovered the species while surveying a rare plant in ...
Key pointsHigher temperatures caused European honeybees to slow down their attraction to light, while native Australian bees' light attraction ...
The Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer is a “leaf cutter” bee, with distinctive horns on its head. While these are the obvious reasoning behind its chosen name, there was another factor at play. “I am ...
James B. Dorey has received relevant PhD funding from Flinders University and the Playford Trust as well as relevant research funding from the Ecological Society of Australia (via the Holsworth ...
Researchers in Australia have discovered a native bee species with tiny “devil-like horns.” A research team at Curtin University in Perth discovered the species while surveying a critically endangered ...
Resistance to synthetic antibiotics poses a critical global health challenge. Various European honeybee and other natural products have been proposed as novel therapeutic agents to address this ...