Elizabeth Morris Exley (29 November 1927 – 1 September 2007) was an entomologist who researched Australian native bees particularly those in the subfamily Euryglossinae.
[3] Her grandmother, also named Elizabeth Exley was credited with establishing a local branch of Mother's Union, which became a district nursing service now known as Anglicare.
[4] Young Elizabeth's father was a founding member of the Queensland Naturalists' Club, and the family had a strong interest in natural history.
After initially studying ants, she switched to bees after working with Professor Charles Michener of the University of Kansas, during his Fulbright Scholarship visit to UQ in 1958.
[6] She amassed a large collection of bee specimens, in her trips to the tropics of Australia, study visits to museums and institutions throughout the world, including those of Professor Michener's laboratories in Kansas and wrote a number of papers.