Bee Friends Bondi

14/03/2026

Tetragonula carbonaria mating swarms.

11/11/2025

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

👉 Read the full story: https://theconversation.com/i-discovered-a-new-australian-native-bee-but-there-are-still-hundreds-we-need-to-identify-267008

10/11/2025

25/04/2025

29/10/2024

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/stingless-bee-honey-trehalulose-health-benefits/

Honey from stingless bees contains large amounts of a unique sugar that’s not a major component of any other food, according to researchers. It has a range of health benefits, from preventing tooth decay and helping with weight loss to managing type 2 diabetes.

02/08/2024

16/06/2024

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-14/benefits-native-bees-why-you-should-have-to-your-garden/103968060

Whether you're interested in the sweet benefits of backyard beekeeping or making your home more appealing to solitary species of native bees, what can you do to attract them to your garden?

30/01/2024

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-10/spotters-guide-australian-flies-species-pests-and-good-deeds/103158802?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web

You may want every fly to buzz off this summer, but according to a nature writer, some deserve an invitation because the overwhelming majority of more than 30,000 species in Australia are too busy doing good deeds to have an interest in your barbecue.

18/01/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/DCVdyKnMDSGhT3Am/?mibextid=VuxXZ0

14/01/2024

Something to learn from the USA's mistakes

Research has found that several factors have hampered bees’ ability to create honey over the past decade

01/06/2023

Scientists monitored the Royal Entomological Society’s garden and listed its most bug-friendly plants

22/04/2023

Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have made a remarkable discovery about cellophane bees—their microbiomes are some of the most fermentative known from the insect world. These bees, which are named for their use of cellophane-like materials to line their subterranean nests, are kn...