Unusual bee-haviour among natives
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 […]
Native bee key to social evolution
Studying the unusual social behaviour of an Australian native bee has enabled Flinders University researchers to obtain a clear understanding about the earliest stages of social […]
Finding Doreyi – James takes a bow, for a bee
Flinders University PhD graduate and Australian bee photographer James B Dorey has had a new bee species named after him. With 1668 known species of bee […]
Land clearance a bonus for bees
After centuries of human impact on the world’s ecosystems, a new study from Flinders University details an example of how a common native bee species has […]
Native bees’ exotic origins reveal cross-pollination
Ancestors of a distinctive pollinating bee found across Australia probably originated in tropical Asian countries, islands in the south-west Pacific or greater Oceania region, ecology researchers […]
New bees a barometer of climate change
The biodiversity buzz is alive and well in Fiji, but climate change, noxious weeds and multiple human activities are making possible extinction a counter buzzword. Just […]
Fiji field work flies out with new species
A treasure trove of new species have been discovered in Fiji’s highlands after several New Colombo Plan student study tours. Three successive years of federal New […]
Little wasp causes quite a buzz
As well as an interest in all insects, Flinders biological sciences PhD Ben Parslow has a fascination for wasps. The focus of his doctorate research on […]