No fruit in the 2025 fruit bowl - @abcnewsaustralia.bsky.social Victoria Pengilley interviews yours truly. Compounding affects of weather delayed native bees + Varroa mite infested feral honey bees? Is Bilpin the Canary in the Coalmine? The jury is in deliberation: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Fresh global-analysis admirably lead by @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social (+ @oliviabernauer.bsky.social PhD data) indicates native bee pollination services leads to higher-quality apples = improved weight & seed set. How do you like them apples? 🍎 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cover image in #G3 highlighting our new paper in "Shifts in bee diet breadths are associated with gene gains and losses and positive selection across olfactory receptors" academic.oup.com/g3journal/ar... @genetics-gsa.bsky.social

New perspective on bee microbiomes from a progressively provisioning social tribe that frequently engage in trophallaxis and removal of faeces in stem nests that lack brood cells. Evolutionary Applications: doi.org/10.1111/eva....

This review touches upon how ancestral solitary stem-nesting bees (Xylocopini) keep microbes siloed, while derived social Allodapini share them in a network through trophallaxis, brood contact & frass cleanup 🐝🐝🐝 📸 Fig. 2

first phylogeny for nocturnal foraging nomiine bees: doi.org/10.1007/s118...

new paper on bee brain development in social contexts: doi.org/10.3389/fevo...