In addition, it could make our food supply less secure. Native bees play a huge role in pollinating crops, and if they're pushed out, this means more pressure on the food system.

When ecologist Kit Prendergast was surveying native bee populations in Perth's Kings Park botanic gardens, the last thing she expected to discover was a new bee species — with a very distinctive ...

A bee checks in to a bee motel. Credit: Supplied “Across two years, the data showed that native bees preferred the smaller diameter holes over the larger holes and my bee hotels attracted 24 ...

Introduced honey bees (Apis mellifera) potentially reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees through a male-bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction. Frontiers in Bee Science ...

More information: Introduced honey bees have the potential to reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees in terms of a male bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction, Frontiers in ...

By Larry Barnett When most of us think of bees, what we envision is the European Honeybee. But these bees are not native to ...

At 10 different sites in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Autumn Maust, a doctoral student from the University of Washington, is researching the impacts of wildfires on native bee communities.

The full study ‘Introduced honey bees have the potential to reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees in terms of a male bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction’ is ...

Curtin University research has revealed that high densities of European honey bees could be harming Australian native bees' fitness by reducing their reproductive success and altering key traits ...