We are a family of urban stingless bee keepers living in the northern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. As with many stingless bee keepers, our obsession and love affair with these gorgeous insects started with just one hive. Over many years we have grown from single hive owner to ...
It is currently the most commonly harvested native hardwood in Queensland. However, little basic knowledge of the reproductive biology of the species is available to inform genetic improvement and resource management programmes. Here we take an integrative approach, using both field and molecular data,...
The heathlands of South-east Queensland, Australia, are plant communities that have adapted to survive in the Bee species and flowering plant genera in the heathland In total we collected 2772 bees belonging to 4 families (Apidae, Halictidae, Megachilidae, Colletidae) and 13 genera (Table 1)....
“We have a great diversity of native bees and they play an important role as pollinators of native flora. These beautiful stamps remind us of how integral the often solitary native bee is, and they’ll be of interest to nature lovers and collectors alike.” The four domestic base-rate (...
Pegg GS, Taylor T, Entwistle P, Guymer G, Giblin F, Carnegie A (2017) Impact ofAustropuccinia psidii(myrtle rust) on Myrtaceae-rich wet sclerophyll forests in south east Queensland. PLoS One 12:e0188058 ArticlePubMedPubMed CentralCASGoogle Scholar ...
If for many people the lack of pollination is a problem, for us it is an opportunity. We know how to farm different species of bees 10 Haines Street, Kedron Queensland 4031, Australia Get directions TESTIMONIALS Dedicated researcher "Giorgio is a dedicated ...
Callistemons are very attractive to honey eating birds, bees and other insects.Not so well known is the Australian rice flower, Ozothamnus dismofolius, which is native to Eastern Australia from north Queensland as far south as the Geelong area in Victoria. Esther and Graeme Cook at Helidon ...
byUniversity of Queensland The larger honey bee (left) shown with the smaller stingless bee (right) on Citrus. Credit: (c) Tobias Smith Science has validated Indigenous wisdom by identifying a rare, healthy sugar in native stingless bee honey that is not found in any other food. ...