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 | Feb 26, 2018 | News, Research stories, University of Adelaide
A team from the University of Sydney visited Dr Katja Hogendoorn’s group in the School of Ag, Food and Wine at Waite to show them how to balloon for bees. The aim is to assess the density of feral honey bee colonies at the Waite, and at locations near Lenswood in the...
by Lieke Van Der Hulst | Feb 21, 2018 | News, Research stories, University of Adelaide
Dr Scott Groom has been particularly busy observing the bees foraging on flowering lucerne, specifically looking at the quality of lucerne pollination in relation to old Eucalyptus trees in the landscape. So why look at the effects of these old trees? Well, worldwide,...