Friday, 29 May 2015

Scent Mimicry... the story of the beewolf and the cuckoo wasp

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The European beewolf ( Philanthus   triangulum ) hunts worker honey bees ( Apis mellifera ) almost exclusively as a food source for offspri...
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Tuesday, 26 May 2015

Coevolution in Hymenoptera... the Honey Bee vs. the Giant Hornet

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Just about everyone is aware of honey bees ( Apis sp. ); the crop pollinators, covered in fur and ever so adorable. Less people will know a...
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Sunday, 10 May 2015

Australian native bees – a possible ‘plan b’ for crop pollination in Australia?

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As mentioned in a previous blog, the worlds honey bee ( Apis mellifera) population is under threat from disease, parasites and the fatal ph...
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Saturday, 9 May 2015

Myrmecomorphy: I wish I wish I was an ant... mimicry of ants

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Ants; ferocious and efficient predators that can overwhelm prey much larger than themselves through tactical attacks, strong mandibles, a s...
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Sunday, 19 April 2015

Symphyta: the First Hymenoptera

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So far I have mainly discussed the social insects in the suborder Apocrita (wasps, ants and bees) from which most of Hymenoptera belong to....
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Sunday, 12 April 2015

Asian Honey Bee's and the threat to Australia

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In 2007 the first colony of Asian Honey Bee or AHB ( Apis cerana javana ) was detected in Cairns, Queensland. There were attempts to eradic...
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Mechanisms behind eusocial societies in hymenoptera - part 2

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In the last blog, I discussed one of the driving mechanisms behind the evolution of socialism in hymenoptera – kin selection. In this entry...
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