Australian Native Bee Conference 2022 – Program released!

The program for the ANBC in Sydney in June is now up 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! Details here: https://www.anba.org.au/notices/conference-program-2022/

What does the Queen actually do, anyway?

Monarchies may be outdated – unless you’re a bee   Insect societies are some of the most complex known to science. Indeed, the insect groups best known for their social success – ants, bees, wasps and termites – are perhaps the only animals that rival humans in the sheer scale of the societies they form. …