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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The NSW Apiarists’ Association Inc. has highlighted mounting pressures facing Australia’s honey bee industry during its 2026 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Honey Bees Found an Unusual New Food Source That Could Change How a Forest Disease Spreads ...

When Marc Newman's wife brought home a new bee hotel from a local hardware store, he knew it was going to attract trouble. The 86-year-old had spent almost 20 years building the wooden structures that ...