INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

• TEDDY BEAR BEES - Covered with dense red-brown fur, the rotund teddy bear bee is one of Australia's most appealing native bees and can provide you with a real teddy bears' picnic in your garden.
  
  
• A STINGLESS BEE WITH A LONG HERITAGE - Austroplebeia essingtoni, originally documented in 1842, is of Australia's most wary native bee species. When a disturbance occurs, they instantly suspend all flying activity - an excellent response against detection.
  
  
• STINGLESS BEES AS POLLINATORS OF MACADAMIA - Dr Tim Heard, CSIRO Entomology, explores the potential value of stingless bees as pollinators of macadamia trees.
  
  
• STINGLESS BEEKEEPING WITH TRIGONA IN VIETNAM - Hive bee products from stingless social Trigona species have a role in traditional Chinese medicine and have a ready market.
  
  
• A TANTALISING TALE FROM THE AGE OF THE DINOSAURS - Have bees always depended upon flowers? An 80 million year old Trigona stingless bee fossil gives us a tantalising clue.
  
  
• SEEING IS BELIEVING: THE COMPOUND EYE OF THE BEE - The compound eye of the bee does not just one lens like the human eye does, but thousands of lenses, providing the bee with almost 360 degree vision.
  
  
• BEES, BROLGAS AND BLOWN-OUT TYRES - The Landcruiser ploughed through many river crossings on its native bee safari from Roper Bar and Borroloola in the Gulf Country and on to Karumba and Georgetown.
  
  
• NORMAN RODD: A LIFELONG PASSION FOR BEE WATCHING - Norman Rodd's enthusiasm for bee watching has earned him a special place in the Australian record books.
  
  
• TARLTON RAYMENT, A REMARKABLE NATURALIST (PART 2) - In the final three decades of his life, the dynamic Tarlton kept up actively identifying and describing native bees and maintaining a huge output of writing.
  

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