General News, Info and Events related to Native Bees
Romina Rader – Senior Lecturer in Community Ecology at the University of New England, Armidale. Her research interests include the identity and performance of insect pollinators in crops, plant-animal interactions and the response of biodiversity to landscape and environmental change. Romina presented some of her work at the July meeting…
This is the Goodrich OATH, designed by Tony Goodrich from Goodrich Bees and supplied by Sydney Stingless Bees. Design While the boxes were originally designed by Tony, there’s been a combined effort with Melissa at Sydney Stingless Bees over the years to improve the design and now all boxes are…
I had the pleasure of catching up with Giorgio and had a great chat about his own design of native bee boxes. Originally from Brazil where he has had many years experience researching native bees and developing the industry and has just recently moved permanently to Australia. Design Giorgio has…
The Brisbane Native Bee Keepers Club filled the room with their annual Hive Exhibition at the Hut at Mt Cootha. (THECA) Doug Irvine was guest Judge and also displayed some of his boxes, honey frames and honey extraction process which he showed how he loads the honey frame in to…
Krystal has had Native Bees for a couple of years now, keeping three species of Social Stingless Bees, Hockingsi (pictured above in the yellow box – blue roof), Carbonaria (raw cypress wood box) and Australis (large vertical log). The Hockingsi are currently connected up to another box in front for…
Jane Street Community Garden covering 500 square metres at West End – Brisbane, is a community non profit organisation that has been running for ten years growing a wide variety of plants. The garden started out with two sponsored hives a few years ago and are slowly increasing their colonies.…
It was a fully booked workshop for the Mitchelton Library Qld Native Bee Workshop 9 March 2019. Tobias Smith (Native Bee Scientist) has been running workshops with Tim Heards Sugarbag Bee business for four years and keeps the attendees interested with his enthusiasm. Besides the main subject of Stingless Bees…
Cormac Farrell – Chief Beekeeper, Ann and Jeff Ross – Hive Haven As part of the initiative for creating diverse habitats, ecosystems in the Parliament House Garden Showcase, this year (2018) Hive haven – a Sunshine Coast small business was invited to install one of their Australian Native Stingless Bee…
The Wild Canary at Brookfield Garden Centre hosted a Native Bee Workshop inviting Sarah Hamilton to talk about native bees and demonstrate a hive colony split. The Wild Canary is a Bistro set amongst manicured gardens inside the Brookfield Garden Centre. They run boutique workshops usually highlighting different food ingredients…
Small Hive Beetle Brogan Amos was the guest speaker at the clubs November meeting. Brogan has done a lot of research in to Small Hive Beetle which is a pest that mainly affects European Honey Bee hives. The Australian Honey Bee industry is worth 1.1 billion dollars and Small Hive…
OATH Construction Plans
Splitting Plates and Bars
Bee Hive Design Gallery
Brood Supports
Moisture Content & Wood Hives
Painting Gaps
Build or Buy Empty Boxes?
Project Panel – OATH
Log Cabin – Hive Duplication
Project OctaHive
Solitary Bee Observation Block
Log Cabin Hive
Square Pillar Hive
Solitary Bee Hotels
Budding Hive Instructions – How To
Pests or not?
Octahive colony died!
Pollination Box
Isolating the Honey Super
Hive Positions & Tips
Goodrich Box Budding
Brisbane Native Bee Club Meeting 08/04/18
Bee Yourself – Sarah & Dean
Australian Native Bee Book
Native Bee Club – Francisco Garcia
ANBC2018 Field Trip