The female of the species has devil-like black horns, and a taste for extremely rare pollen. But until now, this Australian native bee has never been officially named or identified. My discovery of ...
A team of researchers has discovered 71 new native bee species belonging to the resin pot bees, or Megachile (Austrochile), which are unique to Australia and present in every state and territory ...
For centuries, honey bees have remained a fundamental sustainer of agriculture worldwide, pollinating more than 130 types of ...
Bees have many different ways of building their homes. Many people will be familiar with the hives of European honeybees, ...
When we think of bees, we often think of flowers. The more flowers the better, right? Well, not exactly. Like us, bees need ...
New research on Australian native bees suggests that species nesting inside plant stems may be especially vulnerable to ...
Carmen da Silva of Macquarie University's Pollinator Futures Research Center examined nearly 3,500 bees from 95 native ...
A major study of Australian native bees found that stem-nesting species may be the first to feel the impact of climate change ...
New Curtin University research has revealed that high densities of European honey bees could be harming Australian native bees’ ‘fitness’ by reducing their reproductive success and altering key traits ...
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 ...