For #WorldBeeDay today, let's talk about genuine bee conservation actions, not simplistic, feel-good fluff. Let's help all bee species, by keeping wild bees wild by protecting and promoting habitat! We need to get serious about bee conservation. #SaveTheBees#Bees#BeeKeeping
Hear about the brutality and the beauty of Australia's native bees in our #podcast: https://t.co/1LKi9dSSzq (image of the world's smallest bee by our guest @EcologyToby )
Today I'll talking on ABC Conversations with Sarah Kanowski @ABCConvos. Despite the title, I'll pay attention to the great bee diversity of Australian native bees as was as some dramatic stories about stingless bees. *Spoiler* The female workers head butt queens, not the drones.
My eye. With 1 of the 1000s of Oz #StinglessBees that have tried to get in when I have opened nests. They can't sting, but they defend by nibbles. Only 1 has ever made it all the way inside my eye. That hurt. In part as they carry tree resins. Photo by David Roubik @ManuSaunders
Some #StinglessBee carnage going on at my place today at a Tetragonula carbonaria hive. #FightingSwarm under way. Here the battlefield is littered with the dead and dying, as attackers and defenders lock together in mortal combat. Wings litter the ground. 1/5 #Bees
Free PDF download of my book 'The Australian Bee Genera: An Annotated, User-Friendly Key' now available on my ResearchGate profile (https://t.co/yvRNFkXtK6) & my website (https://t.co/bXttqcpxRf). Of use to anyone wanting to identify an Australian bee specimen to genus.
Well, this stingless bee colony is about to go through some #princess dramas. 9 virgin queen cells, all close to emergence. And the colony has a current mated queen. Carnage there will be... Tetragonula carbonaria #bees#beekeeping
Having a coffee & reading James Dorey's @JamesDoreyPhoto new book, Bees of Australia. Nice work Cobber! Such awesome bees & awesome photos! Very hard to choose a fav! But am leaning towards Brachyhesma perlutea. Book available at: https://t.co/hegRqPKy7m #bees#ozpollinators
Part Two: The Carpenter's Son. And so it came, the warm day that the boys went out to look for girls and came home only to be rejected by Mum... "And stay out!" You're on your own now fellas... Good luck out there. #OzPollinators#bees
The Carpenter's Daughter: That moment when an adult daughter goes out for the first time, & when she returns mum won't let her back in, ever again... #CarpenterBees confused? Evicting the kids is usually in spring, not mid-winter. Go back to hibernation...! #OzPollinators#Bees
So many Australian bee books out this year! Latest announcement: James Dorey's 'Bees of Australia: A Photographic Exploration' set for release in October! @CSIROPublishing What an awesome cover! #bees#ozpollinators