As Australian Pollinator Week (8–16 November) gets underway, new research has found that many Australians have poor awareness ...

A rare Australian native bee was identified again in the wild after nearly 100 years. (Courtesy of James Dorey Photography / Flinders University) A field researcher identified the bee, which faces new ...

The discovery of a horned native bee that pollinates a rare plant highlights how little we know about Australian pollinators.

Australian scientists have reported the discovery of a new, terrifying species of native bee, dubbed "Lucifer" for its ...

The female bee's upward-pointing horns could be used to access flowers, compete for resources, and defend nests, researchers ...

“The taxonomist who describes a new species gets to name it,” Prendergast tells Jennifer Hassan at the Washington Post. After ...

The newly-discovered bee species belongs to the genus Megachile and is a visitor to a critically endangered flowering plant ...

It’s not often you get to cast your eyes on a creature feared to be long-gone. Perhaps that’s why my recent rediscovery of the native bee species Pharohylaeus lactiferus is so exciting — especially ...

Science has validated Indigenous wisdom by identifying a rare, healthy sugar in native stingless bee honey that is not found in any other food. University of Queensland organic chemist Associate ...

Australian scientists have announced the discovery of a new type of bee with small horns, in a bug-rich area in Western ...

The mystery of what creates the rare, healthy sugar found in stingless bee honey, has been solved by researchers at The University of Queensland, in collaboration with Queensland Health Forensic and ...

Examination of honey from five different stingless bee species across Neotropical and Indo-Australian regions has enabled for the first time the identification of the unusual disaccharide trehalulose ...