A new sustainability standard has been set for conference lanyards! This #ICCB2025 one is compostable & plantable! Native seeds r embedded into the name tag so local delegates encouraged to plant it for habitat. How good?! As paying delegates, we can and should ask for sustainability like this 😎💃

Victoria is cooked ☹️😭

Native bee hotels - they come in a variety of styles!

Close up of native bee hotels

Assembling an assortment of native #bee hotels (thanks to @flowhive.bsky.social and @georgeclancylester.bsky.social ) in the lead up to #worldbeeday.
Keep an eye out for how you can score one of these next month (and help out Ukranian #beekeepers)!

Important shift quietly taking place across Australia: 'I love it' Green-thumbed Aussies now have an excuse to head back to the garden centre.

Important shift quietly taking place across Australia: 'I love it'

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Did you know that there are over 2000 species of native bees in Australia and around 70% nest in the ground, like the beautiful blue banded bee.

Make your own clay block hotel today: champ.ly/EZw1C5H4

📷 @georgeclancylester.bsky.social
🌍🧪🐝 #beehotel #nativebeesaustralia #savethebees

Reedy Bee Homes for native Bees 🐝

How to: Hardwood Bee Hotels.

It can be an issue when the bee hotels are larger and it’s better to have a number of smaller ones which is more like mimicking the natural nesting sites and materials

Placement can be important, you want to make sure the ends of the tubes are facing the north/north east in a sunny area?

Steer clear from commercial bee hotels!! Make your own everyone 🫶🏻💯

I agree with Cormac. Lipotriches sp.

How fantastic! Thanks for showing me around Cormac

Let’s gooo, testing how smart our native bees are. Nice Preso Jess!! #vicbiocon #vicbiocon2025

Bee hunter saving native species, one 'hotel' at a time A 23-year-old ecologist known as "The Bee Man" is on a mission to conserve solitary pollinators by building them structures where they can nest — and he's urging others to do the same.

Bee Man Feature on the ABC 😁🙌🏻

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Excited to Announce that I’ve been selected as a 2025 ABC Trailblazer 😁🙏🏻

Meet the 2025 Trailblazers innovating and inspiring regional Australia - ABC News

Add me on LinkedIn I have a good post on it with the summaries and the links to info George Clancy lester

Calls for simple roadside change after council workers spotted in expensive 2.5km act There is a very good reason scenes like this should end – and it would saves us millions of dollars a year.

Provided comment in this wonderful article in response to a video highlighting potential for indigenous plantings over high maintenance lawn nature strips and road verges “Calls for simple roadside change after council workers spotted in expensive 2.5km act”

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Property developers installing as few as half of promised ecological features – new report A new report highlights the extent that housing developers fail to deliver on their ecological commitments.

Property developers installing as few as half of promised ecological features – new report
theconversation.com/property-dev...

There’s plenty of other awesome native plants that are great for pollinators but I based this list also on those which are usually available from native plant nurseries, and tried to include genera from across Australia. 🇦🇺

#PollinatorPlants
#NativePlants
#BeeFriendly

3. Literature and research on host taxa of native bees 📖 🧐
4. @bee.babette_performer book Creating a haven for native bees 💐
5. The Aussie Bee website created by Anne and Les Dollin 💻
6. Bee Aware of your native bees Facebook group resources 📝
7. @meganhalcroft and bees business resources 📑

Create a thriving habitat for pollinators by planting these species, featuring my native favorites which will provide essential food and shelter🪵🌺🌿

I made this list from
1. Personal observations 👀 of native bees, birds and insects
2. All the online content I’ve seen of pollinators visiting flowers

‼️The indisputable list of the best native plants for pollinators 🦋🐝🦜🪲🦇

Top plant picks to support pollinators! Boost biodiversity with these native and exotic flowering plants, perfect for attracting bees, butterflies, and other vital species.

#pollinators
#nativebees

In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world Amidst habitat destruction and ecological grief, let’s make a New Year’s resolution for nature — to care for beetles and butterflies, rainforests and reefs, ourselves, and future generations.

Love this positive mindset, turning grief into action.

In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world theconversation.com/in-2025-lets...

I really should have more hesitation before picking up cool bugs

Love my inverts Australia Bug Friendly garden Stickers

Sad to be leaving Garrawang tho 😢

They are definitely one of my favourite native bees!!

2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣‼️We’re in a new Wurundjeri calendar season ‘Biderap’ the Kulin Nation Dry season.

🔥🥵Hot, dry weather with High temperatures and low rainfall.

🦋 Female Common Brown butterflies are flying.

🌱Bowat (tussock-grass) is long and dry.

💫 The Southern Cross is high in the south at sunrise. 🌟

Merry Christmas Everyone🎅 Don’t forget to show some love to the Grinches of the Bee World - Kleptoparasites like Thyreus and Coelioxys cucko bees who steal pollen

#NativeBees
#PollinatorConservation
#BeeDiversity
#ChristmasBees

‼️An Australia First - Green Roof Demonstration (2012)

Had an absolute pleasure visiting @unimelb Burnley campus during the week and getting a tour.

The vegetation layer consists of over 200 different plant species & cultivars, with approximately 3000 plants. The Demonstration Green Roof is 166 m2