Popular Stingless Bee FAQs
I’ve made or bought an empty box, where can I get bees from? Native Stingless Bees will always come in a box or log of their own. You can’t make or buy an empty box and then buy bees by themselves later. Empty boxes sold by box makers are intended
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Sugarbag Bees Observation Hive
This is the new Observation Box from Sugarbag Bees in Brisbane. Tim Heard has been testing the design out for a while now, with the full hive pictured here being two years old and is going well. It’s currently connected
Genomics – James Hereward
Genomics of Stingless Bees – James Hereward The July meeting of the Australian Native Bee Association – Brisbane Branch was a little different as we were still dealing with Covid 19 restrictions. The presentation was broadcast live on Facebook, with
Bee Garden Challenge 2020
The Bee Garden Competition was a great success with 46 entries submitting 125 photos. 18 businesses happily and enthusiastically donated well over $1000 worth of their products as prizes for the competition. The main objectives for the competition were to create new
Hive Haven
Hive Haven I caught up with Ann and Jeff to get a quick update… Ann and Jeff have done a lot of work in the industry over the last few years to raise awareness about native bees and have quite
BeeHealthy Festival Canungra
The Bee Healthy Festival held at Canungra Qld was organised by Alex of Little Bees Secret Garden and Donna of Owl Whole Foods. Starting Friday with the main day on Saturday. The shop drew a crowd with food sampling from
Flavia Massaro – Bumble Bees
Nest Biology of Bumble Bees – Bombus sp – Flavia Massaro Flavia is a well known researcher in the Native bee community and gave a fascinating presentation to the Brisbane Branch of Australian Native Bee Association on her research on
little bees secret garden
Alex loves all things nature including gardening and bees of course! In 2018 Alex took the leap and opened a small business called Little Bees Secret Garden in Canungra Qld, I dropped in for a coffee and chat, …. and
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New to Native Bees?
Hopefully this article will get you started in the right direction. This page lightly touches
Weak Hive – No Queen?
Photo: Weak hive that is recovering well with new brood Over the years we’ve seen
Flooded Hive Box
The video shows the bees repairing and rebuilding their colony after water had entered the
Budding Hive Instructions – How To
Box Placement / Position: The bees will use sight to find their hive entrance, looking
Solitary Bees
There’s over 1600 species of native bees in Australia, with an estimated possible 2000 species!!!
Building & Tests
Honey Super Designs & Testing
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Build or Buy Empty Boxes?
Should you start building your own boxes or just buy them? Many new hive owners
Splitting Plates and Bars
There’s a lot of theories and personal opinion around Stingless Bee Box designs, here I
Observation Windows
If you keep looking you wont be able to see! Observation windows have become quite
Camphor Laurel Native Bee Box
Can I make a native bee box from Camphor laurel? That questions comes up every
