My Garden Path | Dr Kit Prendergast - Gardening Australia
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My Garden Path | Dr Kit Prendergast - Gardening Australia
May 19, 2023
ABC NewsGardening Australia
We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kit Prendergast as the recipient of the 2024 Young Achievement Award! Dr. Prendergast is a leading expert in native bees and a passionate conservation ecologist. With over 60 peer-reviewed publications and numerous awards to her name, Kit’s work in native bee conservation and urban ecology has been groundbreaking. Her research, which includes describing a new bee species, continues to shape environmental conservation efforts globally. Kit’s work in science communi
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We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kit Prendergast as the recipient of the 2024 Young Achievement Award! Dr. Prendergast is a leading expert in native bees and a passionate conservation ecologist. With over 60 peer-reviewed publications and numerous awards to her name, Kit’s work in native bee conservation and urban ecology has been groundbreaking. Her research, which includes describing a new bee species, continues to shape environmental conservation efforts globally. Kit’s work in science communi
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Australian native bees with Dr Kit Prendergast - bee scientist
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Australian native bees with Dr Kit Prendergast - bee scientist
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YouTubeLife in the Bush
Want to gift 💝 the gift of science-based native bee conservation? Head over and you can gift the bee lover in your life a subscription to The Bee Babette Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheBeeBabette This directly supports research, outreach and education 🐝 💚 🙏 ✏️ You also have access to infographics, myth busting articles , popular articles, advice of bee hotels , habitat for ground nesting bees , scientific publications and more ! You can also find my bee ID guide “A Crash Course in Na
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Want to gift 💝 the gift of science-based native bee conservation? Head over and you can gift the bee lover in your life a subscription to The Bee Babette Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheBeeBabette This directly supports research, outreach and education 🐝 💚 🙏 ✏️ You also have access to infographics, myth busting articles , popular articles, advice of bee hotels , habitat for ground nesting bees , scientific publications and more ! You can also find my bee ID guide “A Crash Course in Na
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This Australian Pollinator Week raise awareness about our native bees with artwork designed by The Bee Babette- Let’s get buzzy is available from @handmadepride ( who will also be providing merch at my upcoming @fringeworldperth show The Birds & the Bees!) https://www.handmadepride.com.au/collections/buzz-on-wild-bee Other artwork including Bub-bee shirts for human larva, and the top-selling undisputed selection of the BEST plants for native bees mural “Plant these save the native bees” as worn
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This Australian Pollinator Week raise awareness about our native bees with artwork designed by The Bee Babette- Let’s get buzzy is available from @handmadepride ( who will also be providing merch at my upcoming @fringeworldperth show The Birds & the Bees!) https://www.handmadepride.com.au/collections/buzz-on-wild-bee Other artwork including Bub-bee shirts for human larva, and the top-selling undisputed selection of the BEST plants for native bees mural “Plant these save the native bees” as worn
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Native bees and biological taxonomy with Dr Kit Prendergast
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Native bees and biological taxonomy with Dr Kit Prendergast
588 viewsOct 17, 2021
YouTubeSTEAM Powered Show
A female Megachile has been busy in my cool observation bee hotel by @urban_native_bees 🤩 Want to make your garden an oasis for native bees and ensure you’ve got the best flowers for them? Refer to my book Creating a Haven for Native Bees , email me at kitprendergast21@gmail.com or grab the ebook off my Patreon The Bee Babette https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheBeeBabette/shop . . . #beehotels #megachile #solitarybees #bees #gardeningforbees @beesandblossoms.aus @holly_farnan_entomologist_ @costaswo
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A female Megachile has been busy in my cool observation bee hotel by @urban_native_bees 🤩 Want to make your garden an oasis for native bees and ensure you’ve got the best flowers for them? Refer to my book Creating a Haven for Native Bees , email me at kitprendergast21@gmail.com or grab the ebook off my Patreon The Bee Babette https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheBeeBabette/shop . . . #beehotels #megachile #solitarybees #bees #gardeningforbees @beesandblossoms.aus @holly_farnan_entomologist_ @costaswo
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In 2016 I started my journey as a bee scientist. I had never studied bees (my honours thesis was on horse behaviour) but decided after going to a photographic display on native bees I simply must help protect them Perth - a city, yet situated within a biodiversity hotspot, and tackle the spicy issue of whether honey bees harm our native bees. My PhD supervisors Prof Kingsley Dixon and A/Prof Bill Bateman, took a chance with this little eager bee, as did the Forrest Research Foundation. 2016 was
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In 2016 I started my journey as a bee scientist. I had never studied bees (my honours thesis was on horse behaviour) but decided after going to a photographic display on native bees I simply must help protect them Perth - a city, yet situated within a biodiversity hotspot, and tackle the spicy issue of whether honey bees harm our native bees. My PhD supervisors Prof Kingsley Dixon and A/Prof Bill Bateman, took a chance with this little eager bee, as did the Forrest Research Foundation. 2016 was
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Promoting Australian native bee conservation: Dr Kit Prendergast
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Promoting Australian native bee conservation: Dr Kit Prendergast
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YouTubeCurtin University
Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "The FIRST EVER videos of the Critically Endangered native bee Leioproctus douglasiellus! Learn more about this threatened species on my Patreon The Bee Babette https://tinyurl.com/5n6ufd34 #threatenedonethousand #insectsincrisis #eianzinsects #beebabette #savethebees #wildbees #extinctioncrisis #biodiversitycrisis #australiannativebees #nativebeeconservation #conservation #rarespecies #endangeredspecies #criticallyendangered #scicomm #nativebees #savingspecies #lei
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Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "The FIRST EVER videos of the Critically Endangered native bee Leioproctus douglasiellus! Learn more about this threatened species on my Patreon The Bee Babette https://tinyurl.com/5n6ufd34 #threatenedonethousand #insectsincrisis #eianzinsects #beebabette #savethebees #wildbees #extinctioncrisis #biodiversitycrisis #australiannativebees #nativebeeconservation #conservation #rarespecies #endangeredspecies #criticallyendangered #scicomm #nativebees #savingspecies #lei
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Native bee buzz ep16 2019 Gardening Australia
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Native bee buzz ep16 2019 Gardening Australia
1.7K viewsMay 18, 2019
YouTubeKit Prendergast
FameLab Australia National Final 2019 "Battle of the Bees", Kit Prendergast
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FameLab Australia National Final 2019 "Battle of the Bees", Kit Prendergast
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YouTubeThe Bee Babette
Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "Discover what I found at the beautiful Jirdarup bushlands during my first native bee survey there for Friends of Jirdarup Bushland 🐝 🌱 - featuring amazing wildflowers and native bees, and mating swarms of Xanthesma brachycera! Our urban bushland remnants can support incredible native bee biodiversity, but often this component of nature is ignored in biodiversity surveys, and especially when it comes to environmental impact assessments (if you don’t know what’s th
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Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "Discover what I found at the beautiful Jirdarup bushlands during my first native bee survey there for Friends of Jirdarup Bushland 🐝 🌱 - featuring amazing wildflowers and native bees, and mating swarms of Xanthesma brachycera! Our urban bushland remnants can support incredible native bee biodiversity, but often this component of nature is ignored in biodiversity surveys, and especially when it comes to environmental impact assessments (if you don’t know what’s th
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Bug Hero: The Bee Babette (Dr KIT PRENDERGAST)
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Bug Hero: The Bee Babette (Dr KIT PRENDERGAST)
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YouTubeBugs Need Heroes
BiodiversityConference2025 wrap up! 🌱 🐝 My first in-person conference in years - it was so good to connect with other ecological researchers, professionals and stewards! I presented my manifesto for the Australian Native Bee Strategy, which was very well received, thank you all for your interest and support - watch this space as the Strategy develops! I also had the honour of sharing our native bee biodiversity surveys on Walyarta, the lands of the Nyangumarta Traditional Land Owners, thank yo
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BiodiversityConference2025 wrap up! 🌱 🐝 My first in-person conference in years - it was so good to connect with other ecological researchers, professionals and stewards! I presented my manifesto for the Australian Native Bee Strategy, which was very well received, thank you all for your interest and support - watch this space as the Strategy develops! I also had the honour of sharing our native bee biodiversity surveys on Walyarta, the lands of the Nyangumarta Traditional Land Owners, thank yo
867 views5 months ago
FacebookKit Prendergast
Talking native bees on The Couch TV with Eco Action
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Talking native bees on The Couch TV with Eco Action
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YouTubeKit Prendergast
This is Megachile (Mitchellapis) fabricator - and what a gorgeous bee she is! She is one of the larger bee species to use bee hotels (refer to my book Creating a Haven for Native Bees). Based on my research involving a novel use of the @kingsparkandbotanicgarden seed X-ray machine) I discovered she has an unusual strategy of creating a stack of leaf discs at the back of her nest but does not line or seal her nest with discs (ie she is not a leaf-cutter per se, nor is she a resin bee). What is no
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This is Megachile (Mitchellapis) fabricator - and what a gorgeous bee she is! She is one of the larger bee species to use bee hotels (refer to my book Creating a Haven for Native Bees). Based on my research involving a novel use of the @kingsparkandbotanicgarden seed X-ray machine) I discovered she has an unusual strategy of creating a stack of leaf discs at the back of her nest but does not line or seal her nest with discs (ie she is not a leaf-cutter per se, nor is she a resin bee). What is no
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Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "Hibbertia are a fantastic pollen resource for native bees 💛 🐝 You can see the Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) females getting stuck into this pollen bounty, and I always know Amegilla females will show up too! These flowers require sonication, and provide a resource free from competition from the introduced honeybee Apis mellifera. Want to find out more about planting for pollinators ? Grab my book Creating a Haven for Native Bees: email me at kitprendergast21@gmail.c
Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "Hibbertia are a fantastic pollen resource for native bees 💛 🐝 You can see the Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) females getting stuck into this pollen bounty, and I always know Amegilla females will show up too! These flowers require sonication, and provide a resource free from competition from the introduced honeybee Apis mellifera. Want to find out more about planting for pollinators ? Grab my book Creating a Haven for Native Bees: email me at kitprendergast21@gmail.c
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The Birds & the Bees is returning to Fringe World Festival! The Couch TV Perth, purveyor of all things awesome in Perth, had this bee in the studio to chat all things sweet and seductive in the world of pollination, and the value of the coupling between the arts and the sciences. Get your tickets from the Fringe World website now! https://fringeworld.com.au/whats-on/the-birds-the-bees-fw2026 Event details: Where: Air Nightclub Dates: Jan 24 & Feb 7 Time: 6:30-7:30pm Subscribe to The Bee Babette
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The Birds & the Bees is returning to Fringe World Festival! The Couch TV Perth, purveyor of all things awesome in Perth, had this bee in the studio to chat all things sweet and seductive in the world of pollination, and the value of the coupling between the arts and the sciences. Get your tickets from the Fringe World website now! https://fringeworld.com.au/whats-on/the-birds-the-bees-fw2026 Event details: Where: Air Nightclub Dates: Jan 24 & Feb 7 Time: 6:30-7:30pm Subscribe to The Bee Babette
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FacebookKit Prendergast
Did you know that not all Megachile nest above ground ? @drjesshodgson in response to my reel of Megachile (Eutricharaea ) bees going to town on my leaves said she’d seen the signs, but hasn’t seen them using her bee hotel - it could be that she’s got ground-nesting species! Find out more about native bees on my Patreon The Bee Babette https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheBeeBabette/membership . . . @projectgnbee @invertsau | Kit Prendergast
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Did you know that not all Megachile nest above ground ? @drjesshodgson in response to my reel of Megachile (Eutricharaea ) bees going to town on my leaves said she’d seen the signs, but hasn’t seen them using her bee hotel - it could be that she’s got ground-nesting species! Find out more about native bees on my Patreon The Bee Babette https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheBeeBabette/membership . . . @projectgnbee @invertsau | Kit Prendergast
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FacebookKit Prendergast
This is the nest of Lasioglossum (Homalictus) dotatum, a species (that’s actually part of a species-complex, at least based on DNA barcoding!) that occurs across most of Australia. Research by my PhD student Freya Jackson has revealed they are social, and females will guard the nest entrance whilst others forage to protect the nest being parasitised by parasitoid Labium wasps. Unfortunately it looks like the guards were off duty in this nest! This nesting aggregation is at my favourite native fl
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This is the nest of Lasioglossum (Homalictus) dotatum, a species (that’s actually part of a species-complex, at least based on DNA barcoding!) that occurs across most of Australia. Research by my PhD student Freya Jackson has revealed they are social, and females will guard the nest entrance whilst others forage to protect the nest being parasitised by parasitoid Labium wasps. Unfortunately it looks like the guards were off duty in this nest! This nesting aggregation is at my favourite native fl
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Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "A gorgeous tiny little Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) bee found on Rottnest Island. Like many places, there is no monitoring of native bee populations on Rottnest Island. This is despite how islands are known to be arks for vertebrates, but are also more vulnerable to threats like climate change and sea level rise, and invasive species. @rottnest_island_authority @rottnestconservationcommunity please get in touch to discuss surveys to better document, monitor and conse
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Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "A gorgeous tiny little Lasioglossum (Chilalictus) bee found on Rottnest Island. Like many places, there is no monitoring of native bee populations on Rottnest Island. This is despite how islands are known to be arks for vertebrates, but are also more vulnerable to threats like climate change and sea level rise, and invasive species. @rottnest_island_authority @rottnestconservationcommunity please get in touch to discuss surveys to better document, monitor and conse
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Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "Nesting aggregation of Lasioglossum native bees on @rottnestislandwa ! . . . @ecoactionwa @freya_beelady @invertsau @projectgnbee #bees #wildbees #nativebees #lasioglossum #beespotting #habitat #rottnestisland #nesting"
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Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "Nesting aggregation of Lasioglossum native bees on @rottnestislandwa ! . . . @ecoactionwa @freya_beelady @invertsau @projectgnbee #bees #wildbees #nativebees #lasioglossum #beespotting #habitat #rottnestisland #nesting"
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Kit Prendergast | The iconic Megachile erythropyga with her stunning red frons and red booty ❤️‍🔥 My research on bee hotels has revealed she’s the most... | Instagram
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Kit Prendergast | The iconic Megachile erythropyga with her stunning red frons and red booty ❤️‍🔥 My research on bee hotels has revealed she’s the most... | Instagram
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Make a native bee hotel and attract native bees into your garden
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Make a native bee hotel and attract native bees into your garden
83.8K viewsJul 26, 2019
YouTubeGardening Australia
Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "This pretty little bee on these gorgeous orange blooms is Euhesma undulata on Eremea pauciflora. Unfortunately, there are some very poor native bee ID guides on the web which aren’t written by native bee scientists, which say that black bees with white stripes are Lasioglossum bees. Not only do not all Lasioglossum bees fit this profile, but there are plenty of other native bees that do! The common name ‘furrow bee’ could easily apply to these bees as well - diagno
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Kit Prendergast on Instagram: "This pretty little bee on these gorgeous orange blooms is Euhesma undulata on Eremea pauciflora. Unfortunately, there are some very poor native bee ID guides on the web which aren’t written by native bee scientists, which say that black bees with white stripes are Lasioglossum bees. Not only do not all Lasioglossum bees fit this profile, but there are plenty of other native bees that do! The common name ‘furrow bee’ could easily apply to these bees as well - diagno
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Leaders Lead by Example: Plant-Based, AI-Free, and Climate-Conscious | Dr Kit Prendergast posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Leaders Lead by Example: Plant-Based, AI-Free, and Climate-Conscious | Dr Kit Prendergast posted on the topic | LinkedIn
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Scientists discover new “lucifer” bee with devil-like horns
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Scientists discover new “lucifer” bee with devil-like horns
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YouTubeB.C. Begley
Did you know this native bee Hylaeus ruficeps kalamundae has been found to nest en-masse in polystyrene 🤯 Read my publication on this , as well as my article on the critical importance of Corymbia calophylla to native bees, and access a whole range of resources on native bees and how to protect them on my Patreon The Bee Babette https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheBeeBabette/membership . . . #bees #marri #pollinators #wildbees #savethebees @eucalyptaus @pollinatorpartnership @australian_wildlife_soci
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Did you know this native bee Hylaeus ruficeps kalamundae has been found to nest en-masse in polystyrene 🤯 Read my publication on this , as well as my article on the critical importance of Corymbia calophylla to native bees, and access a whole range of resources on native bees and how to protect them on my Patreon The Bee Babette https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheBeeBabette/membership . . . #bees #marri #pollinators #wildbees #savethebees @eucalyptaus @pollinatorpartnership @australian_wildlife_soci
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Native Bee Buzz - Gardening Australia
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Native Bee Buzz - Gardening Australia
May 17, 2019
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