A new sustainability standard has been set for conference lanyards! This #ICCB2025 one is compostable & plantable! Native seeds r embedded into the name tag so local delegates encouraged to plant it for habitat. How good?! As paying delegates, we can and should ask for sustainability like this 😎💃

Victoria is cooked ☹️😭

Assembling an assortment of native #bee hotels (thanks to @flowhive.bsky.social and @georgeclancylester.bsky.social ) in the lead up to #worldbeeday. Keep an eye out for how you can score one of these next month (and help out Ukranian #beekeepers)!

Important shift quietly taking place across Australia: 'I love it' au.news.yahoo.com/quiet-shift-...

Did you know that there are over 2000 species of native bees in Australia and around 70% nest in the ground, like the beautiful blue banded bee. Make your own clay block hotel today: champ.ly/EZw1C5H4 📷 @georgeclancylester.bsky.social 🌍🧪🐝 #beehotel #nativebeesaustralia #savethebees

Reedy Bee Homes for native Bees 🐝

How to: Hardwood Bee Hotels.

Steer clear from commercial bee hotels!! Make your own everyone 🫶🏻💯

Let’s gooo, testing how smart our native bees are. Nice Preso Jess!! #vicbiocon #vicbiocon2025

Bee Man Feature on the ABC 😁🙌🏻 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Excited to Announce that I’ve been selected as a 2025 ABC Trailblazer 😁🙏🏻 Meet the 2025 Trailblazers innovating and inspiring regional Australia - ABC News

Provided comment in this wonderful article in response to a video highlighting potential for indigenous plantings over high maintenance lawn nature strips and road verges “Calls for simple roadside change after council workers spotted in expensive 2.5km act” au.news.yahoo.com/calls-for-si...

Property developers installing as few as half of promised ecological features – new report theconversation.com/property-dev...

‼️The indisputable list of the best native plants for pollinators 🦋🐝🦜🪲🦇 Top plant picks to support pollinators! Boost biodiversity with these native and exotic flowering plants, perfect for attracting bees, butterflies, and other vital species. #pollinators #nativebees

Love this positive mindset, turning grief into action. In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world theconversation.com/in-2025-lets...

I really should have more hesitation before picking up cool bugs

Love my inverts Australia Bug Friendly garden Stickers

2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣‼️We’re in a new Wurundjeri calendar season ‘Biderap’ the Kulin Nation Dry season. 🔥🥵Hot, dry weather with High temperatures and low rainfall. 🦋 Female Common Brown butterflies are flying. 🌱Bowat (tussock-grass) is long and dry. 💫 The Southern Cross is high in the south at sunrise. 🌟

Merry Christmas Everyone🎅 Don’t forget to show some love to the Grinches of the Bee World - Kleptoparasites like Thyreus and Coelioxys cucko bees who steal pollen #NativeBees #PollinatorConservation #BeeDiversity #ChristmasBees

‼️An Australia First - Green Roof Demonstration (2012) Had an absolute pleasure visiting @unimelb Burnley campus during the week and getting a tour. The vegetation layer consists of over 200 different plant species & cultivars, with approximately 3000 plants. The Demonstration Green Roof is 166 m2

Megachilidae something sp. (My Padil is down so any help is appreciated) Watch this native bee making a home in its little wooden haven. A glimpse of the incredible biodiversity and vital role these pollinators play in our ecosystems. #SaveTheBees #nativebees #wildlifevideo #pollinators

Learned so much about Native Exoneura Bees today with Julian Brown at the @unimelb Burnley Campus as a part of their reed bee relocation program to look into pollination of berries. Turns out Reed bees are really cool. #NativeBees #BeeRelocation #ExoneuraRobusta

Conversation article on some stunning beetles, I love them all but how can you go past the classic cristmass beetle! theconversation.com/australia-bo...

My first ESA Conference 🤯🙌🏻 @ecolsocaus just had over 900 talks and almost 1400 attendees‼️ My fav parts: 🐝 Presenting my research on native bee/plant interaction in Arnhem Land 🐝 Floating wetlands tour 🐝 Urban ecology, and nature in cities forums 🐝 IK and indigenous ecology #ESAus2024

This. Having been through this with a conservation assessment for dingoes in Victoria, this year—which I found highly unsatisfying—this rings absolutely true for me. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great idea

Art by Indigo Harrison in the Koorie Heritage Trust “I love the name murnong as the murn meaning hand and the roots when harvested look like our fingers. They taste delicious like parsnip as I learnt whilst visiting 'Yumbarra' where I had the opportunity to eat them in a curry.”

#ESAus2024 may be over but the #StarterPack is still available if you're looking for great austral ecologists to follow. I've added new people every day so check who else has joined us on Blue Sky. 🧪🌏 #ecology #Australia go.bsky.app/5YmZLNm

Looking for inspiration for your festive season decorations? @bambiraptorf.bsky.social @astrolaura.bsky.social and I have got some crafty ideas! theconversation.com/decorating-y...

Trust none other than Michael-Shawn Fletcher to have the most powerful and awakening talk at #ESAus2024 Key ideas: -we need to see ourselves (humans) as a part of the environment for science -bushfire problems are lack of culture not a CC problem -we need to stop ignoring TO fire knowledge

Certified bee man 📃🎓(Master of Science - Biosciences) It’s been an incredible two years and I am seriously so grateful with how lucky I have been to have such an awesome lab group, uni mates, supervisors, and family. Now onto getting some experience toward my career whilst looking at PhD options

Australian Extinction Bombshell. Estimates of 1,400 - 57,000 invertebrate species have gone extinct in Australia since European invasion. @theconversation.com

Love this visual from Dave Kendal talking about Nature based Solutions (NdS) and the overlap with Biodiversity, Societal challenges and Green infrastructure concepts. That sweet spot in the middle is nice, but not always feasible/targeted @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESAus2024

We simply need to value and care for all species, irrespective of their commonness or rarity. We can and must do this. For too long we’ve accepted or worse, actively fed a triage and zero sum conservation game narrative. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ESAus2024

Favourite concept so far at @ecolsocaus.bsky.social #ESaus2024. @dieterhochuli.bsky.social discussing the need to change our typical perceptions of species (pictured) to not look past the value of common species, particularly when looking at nature in urban environments 👏🏻

I’m speaking at the ESA 🦋🌱 If you’re at the conference, let me know! Would love to see people at my talk and to have a chat after. 💬 Already amazed by the quality of the talks 🤩 #conference #scicomm #presenting #eastarnhemland #guku #conservation #unimelb #nativebees #esaus2024

The little colony of Blue Banded Bees (Amegilla) continues to grow - now up to 16 males roosting on this patch of spent Dianella flower stems! ♥️🐝😁

My little colony of blue banded bees in the front native garden is unhappy with the rain, but the plants will love this! Keep it coming!

Here’s my Do ✅ and Don’t ❌ of making a Bee Hotel ✅Do: Use drill bits between 3-10mm Use bamboo/pithy stems. Face north-east for morning sun Keep close to flowering plants 🚫 Don’t: Use plastic or metal Use treated wood Buy imported bee hotels #BeeHotel #SaveTheBees #PollinatorGarden #NativeBees

Hey, I’m a Native Bee Nerd 🤓researching 🐝 in Arnhem Land which has turned into an obsession with the beauty of Australia’s #NativeBees Young Melbourne based #ecology academic 🧑‍🎓 learning/sharing about Australian flora and fauna 🦋 Reach out if you love #nature #science #conservation #wildlife Clancy