Author Archives: cooksymbiosislab

We’ve got two new PhD candidates joining us in 2023!Rogelio Rosales Garcia and Jyotsana Chauhan will be adding their skills to the Blue-Banded Bee project – when they’re not chasing insects and wrangling reptiles!

Great to see our new paper ‪led by former PhD student Tim Sutton!  A temperate pollinator has high thermal tolerance but is still at risk from increasingly common heatwaves https://bit.ly/2reIUmu

We are excited to be advertising 2 x 3-year postdocs on Australian stingless bees and their role in crop pollination!  For details follow this link – closing date 13 May

Most non-pollinating insects in figs have negative impacts on pollinator offspring but our new paper reports on Eukobelea wasps that decrease seed production. Well done Simon, Vicky and James for climbing those Sulawesi strangler figs!

Our new paper shows that Ficus benjamina fig wasp communities have similar diversity and structure in China and Australia, but no species in common. This tree occurs from India to Australia and China – could be a lot of underappreciated diversity out there!  http://rdcu.be/Kz41