The number of threatened Australian native bee species is expected to increase by nearly five times after the devastating Black Summer bushfires in 2019-20, new research has found. With 24 million ...

New 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 linked to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Female (left) and male (right) Xanthesma (Xenohesma) brachycera. Images are anterior (a and b), lateral (c and d), and dorsal (e and f). Scale bars are 0.5 mm. Credit: Australian Journal of Taxonomy ...

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 ...

In this video, we demonstrate how to collect honey from Australian native bees using a honey super. How to remove a honey ...

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 ...

Eliza Middleton receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Caitlyn Forster receives funding from the Australian Research Council and is a board member for the Australasian Society for the ...

Freya Marie Jackson received funding from the Australian Entomological Society (AES) through their "Small Grant Award", which supported some of this research on native bees. Additionally, she has ...

Research into a group of Australian native bees may answer the question why some species create sterile worker castes and others don't. Associate Professor Michael Schwarz of Flinders University in ...