What is a Bee Hotel? Not all bees live in hives. In fact, many of them are solitary animals, and they need places to shelter ...

These Australian native bees are called Tetragonula carbonaria, but there are over 1500 different varieties of native bees and of course many more worldwide. With the alarming decline in the honey ...

Honeybees were introduced to Australia in the early 1800s. While no long-term research exists on how the bees impacted native plant species back then, today the bees are widespread in feral ...

Adelaide-based ecologist and native bee expert, James Dorey, is known for his beautiful portrait images of bees and other insects. The author of the book, Bees of Australia, James recently ...

“Following our work, the Australian Native Bee Association applied to Food Standards Australia and New Zealand to modify the standard to include stingless bee honey,” Hungerford says ...

The parasitic mite attacks European and Asian honey bees, but does not affect Australia’s native species. Australian industries such as almonds rely on the movement of billions of bees in hives ...