Michael Batley is one of a handful of taxonomists in Australia who specialises in bees, but his knowledge is at risk of being lost as the discipline struggles to find successors.
One of the reasons is that there are no full-time bee taxonomists in Australia.
"Those bee taxonomists that we have that are in their 60s, 70s and 80s have a vast depository of knowledge and we really need to use them as mentors for a new generation," Professor Thiele said."There are few things that are as exciting as discovering a new species."Tobias Smith, an ecologist and bee researcher with Queensland University, has founded the only bee taxonomy training course in Australia.
The campaign to ramp up the discovery of bee species is part of a wider "revolution" of taxonomy in Australia.
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