NATIVE BEES


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Footnotes ou can participate in a global citizen science project on


bee hotels. Kit Prendergast, PhD researcher, has set up a citizen science project for people across the globe to doc- ument their use of bee hotels. Such data will be invaluable to identifying the optimal designs of bee hotels, and the range of species that use them. T


o do so ‘ , go to the Face-


book group “Bees in the burbs in a biodiversity hotspot”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Beesintheburbs/ T


o contribute to the citizen science project, click on the


Announcements’ tab in the left sidebar of the group page. A  for bee hotels (the other two for observations of native bees in W


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1. Megachilids include the genera Megachile, Osmia, Anthophora, Holip- tus, Heriades, Chelostoma and Afranthidium.


2. The hylaeinae include species in the genera Hylaeus, Meroglossa, and Amphylaeus. 


4. Diploid means that there are two sets of chromosomes, one from the mother and one from the father, whereas haploid means that there is only one set of chromosomes inherited from the mother.


5. Cavity-nesting cuckoo bee genera include Coelyoxis, Stelis and Hoplitis subgenus Bytinskia.


Kit Prendergast is a zoologist and conservation biologist from Australia. She is doing a PhD on what factors influence the native bees in urban areas, including whether honey bees compete with native bees. Kit has a real passion for wildlife and gets a buzz out of going out in nature and documenting bee biodiversity. She uses her skills as a scientist to communicate to the public and stakeholders with evidence-based ways to con- serve our precious pollinators.


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