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Excursion – Sat 11 June 10am – 12:30pm

Cassia will take us for a slow walk in the Clinkers Bushland reserve and nearby, exploring the variety of moss species along the way.  She will give us clues for distinguishing mosses from lichens and point out the features useful for identification of different moss species including the habitat where they are growing. She will

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Cassia Read will lead us on a “Moss Foray” at Clinkers Hill

Monthly Meeting: Friday 10th June, 7:30pm via Zoom 

Understanding the behaviours of native and introduced bees How do we ask a bee a question? Can you train a bee? What types of tasks can they solve? Can they acquire concepts? What is the limit of intelligence in a miniature brain? Scarlett will answer these questions and more using examples from the European honeybee

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Dr Scarlett Howard, Monash University. What’s on a bee’s mind?