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The Pollinator Lab

Australian research lab focusing on the ecology and behaviour of insect pollinators, especially bees, wasps, flies and moths.

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    • Loss of Horticultural Pollination Services from Wild Insects Following Bushfires
    • Flies as Pollinators Project
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    • Development of Blue-banded bees as managed buzz pollinators
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Welcome!

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!

Posted bycooksymbiosislabApril 11, 2023Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Welcome!

Pollinators and heatwaves

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

waspandheat

Posted bycooksymbiosislabMay 3, 2018May 3, 2018Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Pollinators and heatwaves

2 x Postdocs on stingless bees

Tetragonula-carbonariaWe 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

Posted bycooksymbiosislabApril 25, 2018May 3, 2018Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on 2 x Postdocs on stingless bees

Detecting the elusive cost of parasites on fig seed production

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Unknown Strangler Fig, Buton-2

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!

Posted bycooksymbiosislabApril 25, 2018May 4, 2018Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on Detecting the elusive cost of parasites on fig seed production

New paper on wasp communities

F benjamina

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

Posted bycooksymbiosislabApril 4, 2018April 23, 2018Posted inUncategorizedLeave a comment on New paper on wasp communities

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