Australia’s amazing stingless bees

Australia has a remarkable native bee fauna, with a large number of endemic species. Among those are the incredible stingless bees: native social bees that live in colonies of tens of thousands of workers and produce honey, similar to European honey bees. In this talk Dr Ros Gloag will give an overview of Australia’s native bees and why they are important to our ecosystems and our agriculture. Ros will also talk about new research on our native stingless bees that is shedding light on their remarkable behaviours and ecology. 

About our speaker

Dr Gloag is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Life and Environmental Science at The University of Sydney. Her research expertise is the ecology and evolution of bees, including Australia’s native stingless bees. She completed her PhD at the University of Oxford, before taking up a University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowship at Sydney in 2014, followed by a Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology, an ARC DECRA Fellowship and a University of Sydney Robinson Fellowship.