When extreme heat scorches Australia, underground bees retreat into insulating soil to survive, but stem-nesting bees have ...
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Australia’s native bees struggled after the Black Summer fires – but a world-first solution brought them buzzing back
After a devastating bushfire, efforts to help nature recover typically focus on vertebrates and plants. Yet extreme fires can threaten insects, too. After the Black Summer fires of 2019–20, I embarked ...
Australia's native bees are underscoring a counterintuitive climate warning. A new study found that bees nesting inside thin ...
As Australian Pollinator Week celebrates the vital role of pollinators, Dr. Prendergast hopes the findings will inspire a more inclusive approach—one that brings all of Australia's native bees, not ...
New research has revealed Marri trees are critical to the survival of more than 80 species of native bee in Western Australia's South West region, which is one of the world's most biologically rich ...
Bees are critical to our biodiversity, but they’re in trouble. The University of Melbourne's new Map of the Month tells us ...
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 ...
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 ...
For centuries, honey bees have remained a fundamental sustainer of agriculture worldwide, pollinating more than 130 types of ...
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