When extreme heat scorches Australia, underground bees retreat into insulating soil to survive, but stem-nesting bees have ...

A team of Australian researchers has discovered 71 new native bee species belonging to the resin pot bees, or Megachile (Austrochile), which are unique to Australia and present in every state and ...

Australia's native bees are underscoring a counterintuitive climate warning. A new study found that bees nesting inside thin plant stems receive so little protection from external ...

Native bees can be almost any colour - red, yellow, orange, green, blue, black and white, and while some have dense fur covering their bodies, others are smooth, hairless and shiny. Aussie bees range ...

Bees are critical to our biodiversity, but they’re in trouble. The University of Melbourne's new Map of the Month tells us ...

As Australian Pollinator Week (8–16 November) gets underway, new research has found that many Australians have poor awareness of Australian native bee species—revealing a significant gap in public ...

Nov. 11 (UPI) --A new species of bee in Australia has been discovered, named for its unique devil-like features. The nicknamed "Lucifer" bee, or Megachile lucifer, was discovered in 2019 in the ...

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 ...

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New research on Australian native bees suggests that species nesting inside plant stems may be especially vulnerable to rising temperatures. The findings show that pollinator survival depends not only ...