Australian Native Bee Association in Peak Crossing, Queensland, Australia | Agricultural cooperative

Australian Native Bee Association

Locality: Peak Crossing, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 434 416 053

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25.01.2022 . egg lay . on a new year’s day! A new Queen for a young brood and simply the beginning of a fresh horizon. Tetragonula carbonaria 1.1.21

23.01.2022 Excellent tip on building better hive boxes for stingless bees

23.01.2022 Honey Samples Wanted. To complete our application to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to have stingless bee honey recognized, we need a few further honey tests to fill a few biochemical and microbiological knowledge gaps. We need 20 samples of Tetragonula and 20 samples of Austroplebeia honey from professionals or enthusiasts experienced in honey collection. If you can help please collect one or two 60mL samples from a single colony or a single batch of honey coll...ected by your standard methods into a clean, DRY, food grade container. We can provide clean, dry sample containers, and will pay for postage and handling. Please label with Species name (e.g. carbonaria, hockingsi, australis, cassiae etc) Month and year collected (e.g. Sep 2020) Harvest technique (e.g. pierce and drain) Storage conditions (e.g. refrigerated) If you can help with a donation of honey please contact Dean Haley at [email protected]. See more

22.01.2022 Watch two solitary bee females fight over a nest site.

20.01.2022 Sure to be a lot of fun.

17.01.2022 Mid-north Coast branch held their second branch meeting for the year. It did not disappoint with a full house of bee enthusiasts present to learn about organic gardening and the benefits to the native bees. We were lucky enough to have Neville and Sophia of Green Patch Organic Seeds, on the left of the image, who are bee keepers themselves to give an informative talk on a variety of topics. Ranging from plants that attract bees, beneficial insects, caring for your soil and co...mbinations of plants and herbs that work well together. Neville spoke of the importance of diversity with trees, flowers, fruits, herbs and vegetables being the key to a healthy garden that can attract and maintain a food source for the bees. Having a mixture of these different plants that will produce flowers all year round even in the colder months will assist in keeping your hive or hives strong. Another important point was to have a variety of plants at different levels such as, ground cover, shrubs and trees. Examples given were vetch which has a lovely flower which can also be used a green manure. Other examples are cat nip, lavender, coriander and any type of vegetable. Another level would be trees, such as Melaleuca, citrus and any stone fruit. We also held our AGM with no changes to the board. Diane Norris was re-elected as the Chairperson, David Croft as the Secretary, Elizabeth Crowley as the Treasurer and Derek Ayriss as the Communications Officer. See more

05.01.2022 Wheen Bee Foundation has launched a Fund to discover and document Australia’s remaining native bee species. The Fund will support an ambitious campaign by Taxonomy Australia to discover and describe all remaining Australian bee species over six years An estimated 1650 species of native bees have been discovered and named in Australia in the last 200 years. Bee taxonomists estimate that another 1,000 species have not yet been discovered, named or documented. The DiscoverBees ...campaign aims to support the discovery and documentation of all remaining bee species over six years. This will require a 16-fold increase in the current rate of discovery, at a cost of $600,000/year for 6 years ($3.6 million). The benefits, from increased knowledge of Australia’s native bees, and their opportunities for utilisation and needs for conservation, are likely to far outweigh the cost. https://www.wheenbeefoundation.org.au/our-work/discoverbees/ See more

04.01.2022 Before getting out the fly swat and cleaning up its eggs, thought I'd take the opportunity to photograph the antics of this hive syrphid fly going about its bus...iness. It was operating at the level of an observation panel, so the hive could easily be opened and eggs cleaned up without affecting the bee colony inside the hive. See more