Everything in this hive was in great condition with no pests, a good amount of resources and plenty of good looking brood. A strong healthy colony with lots of bees. Moisture levels are normally very high inside a hive, around 70 to 90% humidity. It looked like it just suddenly…
This article will show the process and progress of Budding / Eduction using the Nativo Box. **Disclaimer – This is just the way i’m doing it, I’m not following any instructions or recommendations from the box designer. This may not be the method they recommend. The Nativo box has a…
This article will show the process and progress of Budding / Eduction using the Goodrich Box. **Disclaimer – This is just the way i’m doing it, I’m not following any instructions or recommendations from the box designer. This may not be the method they recommend. I’ve taken the bottom box…
Things don’t always go well with Native Bees or anything with nature. Sometimes we have tragedies and we can learn from them and make changes. I called this box Project Octahive. I built the box in 2015 and put bees in to it around a year later. Here’s the build…
Want to build a bee hotel this weekend and encourage some native solitary bees in to your garden? Bee hotels provide individual artificial tunnels that entice female solitary bees to lay their eggs. About 30% of native bee species will choose to nest in pithy centred canes or branches and…
Hopefully this article will get you started in the right direction. This page lightly touches on everything from Bee species through workshops, publications and clubs. Which bees do you like? There’s over 2000 species of native bees in Australia, most of those are Solitary Bees, with 11 species being Social…
Finally i have one of Tony Goodrichs’ boxes, supplied by Melissa at Sydney Stingless Bees. These boxes are the most sold boxes in Australia and I thought it’d be good to have a look at them and try it out for myself. Update: 20/01/2019 I split a hive box and…
Getting Bees in to a different shaped box I wanted to put Bees in to some of my pillar style boxes. The standard oath box is 280mm x 200mm, while the frames I want to transfer to are 175mm square. I’ve put a clear window on top of the smaller frame…
David at Northside Native Bees is a bit of a wiz with gadgets and has built his own monitoring system. The device measures outside temperature and also Brood temperature. The information is sent via wifi to his computer then updates his website every six minutes. Below: Previously the…
I recently purchased a new Pollination Box sold by Sugarbag Bees because i was interested in the design of the box. This box is designed with the purpose for crop pollination on farms. It’s a PVC construction and has no honey super top frame so isn’t intended for honey extraction. The box is…
Treasure Chest
Oiled Cypress Observation Hive
Red Mailbox Hive
Combination Stingless Bee Hive
Octagonal Hives
Log Cabin Hive
Rebated & Pegged Join
So you want to buy some native bees?
Splits 08/10/2017
Brood Temperature Monitoring
Split a Native Bee Hive – Video
Budding – Hive Duplication Example
Creating a new hive
Octahive colony died!
Bee Expo 2016 – Photos
ANBC2018 Field Trip
John Klumpp – Brisbane Native Bee Club
BNBC Meeting – Hive Exhibition
Australian Native Bee Book