Wild and Wonderful: Native Bees in Australia It goes without saying, I love bees of all shapes and sizes. And although it’s beyond amazingl that honey bees have entered the popular consciousness and people are starting to understand how absolutely
Chasing The Sun So it seems that spring is on its way! Over the weekend, Melbournians had the pleasure of experiencing a vision of what’s to come: blue skies, sunshine, flowers blooming left, right and centre in the branches above
‘Out of Africa.’ In the 1978 disaster-horror movie The Swarm killer bees managed to down helicopters, as well as destroying a military base, a nuclear plant and a township, before being eventually lured out to sea and apparently exterminated. Directed
Bees – much more than mere bugs! For me the fascination all started at a young age. I would watch these buzzing invertebrates cruise from flower to flower, seemingly attracted by nothing more than a splash of colour. This was
The biggest of bees. There are almost 20,000 known species of bees, and many more that remain undescribed. Bees can be found everywhere that flowering plants occur, and on every continent except Antarctica. Australia has over 1,500 species of native
