Sarah Hamilton from Bee Yourself Australia held a Native Bee Workshop in Brisbane and invited Dean Bryant to demonstrate a couple of colony transfers and splits. There was great interest for the short notice event with over 40
Ann Ross from Hive Haven described her journey from her first hive and through the development of the current Hive Haven product, version 9 were Hive Haven has recently received grants to develop the box and
Another enjoyable and always educational workshop run by Toby and Sugarbag Bees at the CREEC Environmental Centre Qld. These workshops are run on a regular basis, if you’re a newbie or experienced i’d recommend going as there’s
Another year for the Bee Expo at Imbil Qld Australia. Plenty of exhibitors, demonstrations and people! Photo above: Ann from Hive Haven, with the latest model boxes. Ann and Jeff are always happy to spend the
John Klumpp, pictured holding the hive, definitely has some celebrity status as the meeting room was overflowing with members keen to hear him talk about his hive designs. The current version is a light weight
The Stingless Bee workshop held at the Nundah Library started off with a slideshow session where Tim Heard shared plenty of information about all kinds of bees, including Honey, Solitary and Stingless Bees. The information session
A fantastic Stingless Bee workshop was run by Toby from Sugarbag Bees at the Kumbartcho Environmental Centre at Eatons Hill Qld. There were plenty of challenges presented to Toby throughout the day, including.. the heat!!! …
The Ag Guide Australian Native Bees. It covers a fair bit, there’s a lot about Solitary Bees where most other books are all about Stingless Bees. My books have just arrived and look pretty good. It
What a great day! I went along to the Bee Expo at Imbil, met and chatted to a lot of great people. Awesome day. There were talks about pollination, Small Hive Beetle and Solitary Bees. Here’s a
The Australian Native Bee Book has all the information you need for looking after native stingless bees. It’s the kind of book that you can keep handy as a reference manual and refer back to it when
Brisbane Native Beekeepers Club website: http://www.bnbeec.com.au/ Meetings are held 1st Sunday of each month at 1pm. (no meeting in January) November 2016 Meeting Flavia gave a great presentation about Propolis (bee resins and wax materials
Tim Heard held a Native Bee workshop at the CREEC Environmental Centre at Burpengary. Ross brought along an old rotten log with a Hockingsi hive inside it and Tim demonstrated how to transfer the hive to a box. Below,
Bob released his new Honey Extraction design at a small hive split session held at Strathpine on the weekend. I went along for a look…. The waffle looking device is a plastic tray that’s inserted
nativebeehives.com is a project website with a focus on individual design and construction of Native Bee Hives, lots of photos, information about Australian native bees and also a news story thrown in around the place!