Bee Aware Brisbane People
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Dr Tobias (Toby) Smith is the founder and director of Bee Aware Brisbane. Tobias is a native bee researcher and commercial stingless bee keeper with a passion for community engagement and science communication. Since 2010 Toby has been presenting lectures and workshops to community groups on native bees and pollination. Toby has extensive experience teaching children and adults of a range of ages, from Kindergarten to University and adult education. In addition to teaching children, Toby has 12 years of experience teaching University students, on topics including ecology, entomology, pollination, and bee identification. Toby's research background is in understanding native bee communities in agricultural landscapes, the use of native bees in crop pollination, and native bee biology and ecology. Toby's current research is focused on stingless bee biology and the use of native bees in glasshouse/protected pollination (as well as open field crops), and Toby has recently written a book on the identification of Australian bees, targeted at university students and researchers (The Australian Bee Genera: An Annotated, User-Friendly Key - Download free PDF HERE). Toby's work time is divided among native stingless bee keeping, teaching on beekeeping and bee conservation to school children and adults (through Bee Aware Kids), university teaching, and bee and pollination research (at the University of Queensland). Five years ago, Toby's stingless bee keeping 'hobby' morphed into something more serious, and he has been managing native stingless bees commercially since. In the last five years Toby has propagated over 1000 new stingless bee hives, and manages hives in QLD and NSW.
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Native bees in schools - Native bee education - Pollination education - Food production in schools
Native bees for schools - School incursions - Native bee workshops for schools - Bee education
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Native bees for schools - School incursions - Native bee workshops for schools - Bee education
Buy hives - Queensland - New South Wales
Brisbane - Gold Coast - Byron Bay
