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bees and me

bees and me

When I was a little boy (oh yes, I love stories that begin this way too) there were many things I wanted to be when I grew up. Two of these were astronaut and apiarist (I can remember the second quite well because my mother thought I said atheist…but that’s another story.) When I was a boy that was a bit older than I was when I was little, I would sit and program in basic on my trs-80…

A short introductory text by Andrew

My route to the ‘bee-house’ and the ‘mellifera’ project…

My route to the ‘bee-house’ and the ‘mellifera’ project…

The shift from culturing my own stem cells in the laboratory to observing bees at the ‘bee-house’, Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) might, initially, seem like quite an arbitrary one. Certainly my knowledge about bee behaviours when I began my residency with the Visual and Sensory Neuroscience group at QBI was pretty average – social communities; queens, drones & workers; swarming and painful stings probably about summed it up! …

A short introductory text by Trish

a short bee bibliography

a short bee bibliography

A short list of texts exploring some diverse aspects of bees – the cognitive, sensory and communicative habits of which will be playing a central role in our developing project. (not including texts and publications from the Visual & Sensory Neuroscience Group, which will form a separate list.)