Bee Aware Brisbane

Bee Aware Brisbane promotes community education on Australian native bees and other wild pollinators. Facebook: Bee Aware Brisbane

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

Great #WorldBeeDay thread by @ManuSaunders. Celebrating the day with a swag of evidence-based facts about bees and their conservation!

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

@ausgeo We have some blue beauties here in Australia too :) Here are some native blue banded bees and a neon cuckoo bee #WorldBeeDay

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

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

[Conversations @abcconvos]

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 )

[Dr Tobias Smith @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.

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

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

[Bee Aware Brisbane @BeeAwareAus]

@KarenRetra @tonichilds Wow! A house full of hope for pollinators :)

[Bee Aware Brisbane @BeeAwareAus]

@albericie @abcnews @ManuSaunders

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

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

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

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.

[Bee Aware Brisbane @BeeAwareAus]

@barragan_lanuza Is the whole floor flooded? And the offices and labs?

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

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

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

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

[Bee Aware Brisbane @BeeAwareAus]

@Mikey_Whitehead With ground nesting bee nest on the ground below??

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

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

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

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

[Rader Ecology Lab @RaderLab]

Rader Lab will be well-represented at this! Looking forward to #ANBC2018 #UNEpollinationgroup https://t.co/Xm9JblbfVC

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

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

[Bee Aware Brisbane @BeeAwareAus]

@EcologyToby @CSIROPublishing @JamesDoreyPhoto

[Dr Tobias Smith @EcologyToby]

The first Australian Native Bee Conference now has a hashtag #ANBC2018
Only 25 days to go :) https://t.co/rg8d1RoYWo