Australian native bees have evolved complex social structures and foraging behaviours that help biologists answer longstanding questions, such as the origins of social behaviour, and the drivers of ...

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 ...

Scientists in Australia have identified a new species of native bee with tiny, devil-like horns that have earned it a playfully hellish name – “lucifer.” The species, Megachile lucifer, was discovered ...

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 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 ...

Australia’s scientists are abuzz with the potential of our native bees, some of which can be deadly. ASK HALF A DOZEN Australians to nominate the country’s deadliest creatures and they’ll probably ...

A new study has found that what were thought to be two different species of native Australian bee are in fact one. A new study by Curtin and Flinders Universities has found that what were thought to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...