Lucas Hearn

Researcher studying native bee behaviour, ecology and evolution 🐝

[Phys.org @physorg_com]

Weird world of Aussie bees: How one species creates gender balance in the nest @flinders @RSocPublishing https://t.co/W5bQR19b2m https://t.co/VISH3HAdWm

[South Australian Museum @SAMuseum]

We're buzzing with excitement! SAM researchers @LRHearn @ParslowBen @michael_s_y_lee & Mark Stevens have co-authored 2 new papers showing why some Aussie bees prefer to stay single & why some are fussy about flowers. https://t.co/4iJkvtQAzt @ConversationEDU
📸 @JamesBeeDorey

[Lucas Hearn @LRHearn]

@BrunoBuzatto @apheloria @juanita_rodr @wamuseum Great talk Bruno!!

[Lisa (Morrison) Newbury @JournoLisa]

WE BEE-LONG TOGETHER: @ParticleWA's @AlexDook learns about @Flinders PhD student @LRHearn's research into the social evolution of a native Aussie bee.
@uwanews @ScienceUWA 🐝🐝🐝
https://t.co/7ioKM8vDpE

[Royal Society Publishing @RSocPublishing]

Dawn of sociality—investigating solitary to social nesting behaviour in an Australian native #bee https://t.co/2eqsxerU34 #ProcB @LRHearn @UnlivingDave @FlindersCSE

[Lucas Hearn @LRHearn]

Excited about this new paper with @UnlivingDave showing how social behaviour in the only social colletid bee🐝provides a unique perspective on the evolutionary transition from solitary living to complex social organisation.
https://t.co/sRpDj6tor6

[Nicholas Saleh @nickwsaleh]

New work with J. [e-mail] conduct an experiment examining totipotency in the orchid bee Euglossa dilemma, aiming to better understand the lack of nonreproductive workers in orchid bees, which have evolved in all other corbiculate bee tribes https://t.co/ZevARHcRCy

[Lucas Hearn @LRHearn]

If you like bee + parasitoid systems check out this new study in @BehavEcol. We investigated how the benefits of group living can change across the life-cycle of a social bee depending on variation in parasite pressure. https://t.co/hFBdfiKOZc
#bees #evolution #hymenoptera

[Lucas Hearn @LRHearn]

We found that there was temporal variation in when each parasite attacked A. morosus nests in the Dandenong Ranges, which may be driven by host resource utilization and have important implications for social nesting. Watch this space!

[Lucas Hearn @LRHearn]

New paper with @ParslowBen detailing eight insect parasitoid associations that are likely to influence social nesting in the colletid bee, Amphylaeus morosus. https://t.co/z4tWvQMsWX

[Atlas of Living Aust @atlaslivingaust]

Biodiversity losses tend to be under-reported, especially for invertebrates. 📉 🐝 With the help of ALA data, @JamesDoreyPhoto and colleagues are changing that. Their study of 553 Aussie bee species post-fire found 11 are now eligible for the @IUCNRedList.
https://t.co/LXARVwIPqb

[James B Dorey @JamesBeeDorey]

After nearly two years of collaborative effort we have finally published our #bushfires and #bees paper. In the paper we develop a new method to examine poorly-known taxa and recommend 11 spp. for #IUCN listing.
https://t.co/sd4FypXyxQ @GlobalChangeBio

[Bentomologist @ParslowBen]

A wicked talk by @LRHearn about his genetic work on sociality in an Australian #bee species. #ANBC2019 #hymenoptera #Genomics

[Bentomologist @ParslowBen]

New species alert! @LRHearn et al. discovered + described the new species Ephutomorpha tyla parasitising nests of Amphylaeus morosus. The first record of a Hylaeinae host for #mutilidae!
The article at @Aust_Ent_Soc - Austral Entomology https://t.co/GyQZ6jDpN0 #wasplove