Australian Native Bee Conference 2022 – Program released!
The program for the ANBC in Sydney in June is now available on the website. It’s not too late to register and spend a weekend catching up on everything new in the world of our amazing native bees! See more details here.
Unravelling a biological mystery: why we inherit more maternal DNA
Read this fantastic new piece of Sci Comm by Madeleine Beekman, which discusses why uniparental inheritance of mtDNA is the norm.
Sex and the single bee
One of the most enduring and confusing mysteries of life is sex. Why is everyone so obsessed with it? Why do we do it in the first place? The evolutionary imperative to pass on one’s genes is one thing, but even that doesn’t fully explain it. Even if you don’t consider all the non-reproductive sex …