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…
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…
Francisco and Tim The secret life of males – Male reproductive behaviour in stingless bees Francisco was the guest speaker at the North Brisbane Native Bee keepers Club for the October 2018 meeting. Francisco is researching male reproductive bevahiour in stingless bees in Australia at the moment, though he…
Giorgio Venturieri was guest speaker at the Brisbane Native Bee Keepers Club meeting for May 2018. Giorgio recently moved to Brisbane from Brazil and is very experienced with Native Bees and using them for pollination of local crops in Brazil. He described a major aspect of keeping Native Bees is that it makes people…
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 other Native Bee products further. The box has a 70mm void area which can be…
Log Cabin V3
Rebated & Pegged Join
Budding Box – Kit
Skep – Sisal Rope
Basic Pine Oath
Budding Kit – version 2
Layered OATH
Syrphid Fly – Wasp Mimic
Goodrich Box Budding
Putting bees in to the Goodrich box
Pollination Box
Splits 08/10/2017
So you want to buy some native bees?
Hive Positions & Tips
Bee Expo 2016 – Photos
Bees & Honey Eumundi
Romina Rader – Wild Pollinators in Australian Crop Systems
Goodrich OATH
Stingless Bee Workshop 09/03/2018