Objects of Substance - BGGS' Native Bees

Native bee - Tetragonula hockingsi.

Our tiny (3-5mm), black stingless native bees are from the species Tetragonula hockingsi . In the wild, these native bees often nest in tree hollows, as they do at our Marrapatta campus, or in water meters and walls in an urban environment like Brisbane. Our bees are one of 1700 species of Australian native bees and, while many of these species remain solitary, our BGGS bees are social creatures—living as a collaborative, hard-working colony. The queen bee spends all her life in the hive, sharing space with her worker daughters and male drones—thousands of bees buzzing around the beautiful Grammar gardens.

2019 Service Captains: Gemma Grattan 12O and Victoria Hogan 12W.