Kit Prendergast

[1][2][3][4][5] She studied at Curtin University[6] and gained her PhD after researching the biodiversity of native bees and pollination networks in urban areas, along with how to conserve them and the impact of honeybees on native bees.

[7][8] Prendergast has also researched and written about urban area issues for bees, focusing on Perth and the south west of Western Australia.

[13][14] Her other areas of research include undertaking biodiversity assessments, pollination ecology, critiquing methods for surveying pollinators, native bee ecology and behaviour and citizen science.

[15][1][3][7][16][17][4] In 2019, Prendergast was named as a finalist for Young Scientist of the Year.

[1][19][20] Prendergast also has a large tattoo of two bees having sex on her right shoulder.