Researchers say Australia is in a unique position to prepare native species for the impacts of the Varroa destructor—a mite ...

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

Late last year, the New South Wales government announced an additional A$9.5 million in funding to support honeybee keepers in the wake of the 2022 arrival and subsequent spread of the Varroa mite.

European honeybees might be good for agriculture, but they're causing some serious problems for Australia's native bees. A new study points out that these introduced bees are taking over important ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While we think of bees as black and yellow, there are species that come in different colors. Read here about blue-banded bees!

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 ...

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 ...