by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Feb 24, 2020 | News, Research stories, University of Adelaide
We now know that blue-green blue-banded bees are useful pollinators of lucerne. After honey bees, these bees are also among the most abundant bees in lucerne crops. If we want to capitalize on their free pollination services, we need to stimulate their presence. The...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Apr 15, 2019 | News, Research stories, University of Adelaide, Women of Waite, WRI
In the last 20 years, the global honey bee industry has faced massive losses due to ‘colony collapse disorder’. Concern for the insects’ plight surfaces regularly in the media, inspiring multiple documentaries and science-fiction narratives.But European honey bees,...