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Native Bee Rescue & Education Sunshine Coast
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25.01.2022 Every winter I get huge cracks in my hands. What starts as a bit of skin off soon turns into deep cracks that hurt. This is after one night with our native bee balm. I put a dab on a bandaid and covered it. The difference is amazing. Another day and it should be all healed.
25.01.2022 Went to a native bee workshop at the weekend. Absolutely fascinating... and have signed up to get a hive at our place (although there's a long waiting list).
24.01.2022 There is a native bee hive of TC in this bucket. A tree came down in last Saturday’s storm. The home owner only got around to cleaning them up this Saturday. I got a call Saturday afternoon about a tree that had smashed open when it fell exposing the hive. I was told it was in bits so advised him to put it in a big plastic container as nothing else was available. A bucket with lid did just nicely. He put the contents into the bucket with a twig holding the lid slightly open. It was left until late this afternoon (Monday) to collect. All the bees had found their temporary home. The hive is actually in really good shape. Most is still incased in batumen with some stores seperate. I will be boxing these in the morning.
24.01.2022 The wall of boxes
23.01.2022 Well done Eileen. Another eduction success. You can see the nice new queen is still quite dark, she will fill out in the next 2 weeks
23.01.2022 Relocated an AA hive from a broken log into an AA box.
20.01.2022 Suburbia. No old hollow trees anywhere in sight so these bees found a cavity in this styrofoam box that has some pebbles inside. It was located in the shade of an orchid house. They are very resourceful bees. Thanks Glenys for calling me to give them a new home.
20.01.2022 Bee vacuums ready to go. The pumps have a rechargeable battery. I will be testing the pump today on a rescue to see the battery life. They charge from 240v or a 12v car socket. $100 each.
19.01.2022 Thanks to everyone who came today. Great company makes for a great day. A special thank you to my mum Edwina and sister Jacki for being awesome checkout chicks and morning tea wonders :)
18.01.2022 Branding more boxes today. Sold the last 3 finished boxes today. Will get these clear coated tomorrow just in time for more orders.
18.01.2022 Today's workshop focused on removing AA bees from a fallen log. Brood placed into hemp hive to observe hemp hive properties. #brymacnativebees #nativebees #hemphives @ Peachester, Queensland, Australia
16.01.2022 Science sweetens native honey health claims. Science has once again validated Indigenous wisdom by identifying a rare, healthy sugar in native stingless bee ho...ney that is not found in any other food. University of Queensland organic chemist Associate Professor Mary Fletcher said Indigenous peoples had long known that native stingless bee honey had special health properties. We tested honey from two Australian native stingless bee species, two in Malaysia and one in Brazil and found that up to 85 per cent of their sugar is trehalulose, not maltose as previously thought, she said. Dr Fletcher said trehalulose was a rare sugar with a low glycaemic index (GI), and not found as a major component in any other foods. Traditionally it has been thought that stingless bee honey was good for diabetes and now we know why having a lower GI means it takes longer for the sugar to be absorbed into the blood stream, so there is not a spike in glucose that you get from other sugars, Dr Fletcher said. Interestingly trehalulose is also acariogenic, which means it doesn’t cause tooth decay. Dr Fletcher said the findings would strengthen the stingless bee honey market and create new opportunities. Stingless bee honey sells now for around $200 per kilogram, she said. The high commercial value also makes it a risk for substitution, where people could sell other honey as stingless bee honey, or dilute the product. But due to this research, we can test for this novel sugar, which will help industry to set a food standard for stingless bee honey. People have patented ways of making trehalulose synthetically with enzymes and bacteria, but our research shows stingless bee honey can be used as a wholefood on its own or in other food to get the same health benefits. The work of Dr Fletcher and the research team has led to a new project funded by AgriFutures Australia and supported by the Australian Native Bee Association. Working with Dr Natasha Hungerford from UQ’s Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation and Dr Tobias Smith from the School of Biological Sciences the new project will investigate storage and collection, to optimise the trehalulose content of Australian stingless bee honey. The research by Dr Fletcher and her collaborator Dr Norhasnida Zawawi from the Universiti Putra Malaysia, and colleagues from UQ is published in Scientific Reports and is freely available online at www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68940-0 See more
14.01.2022 The stack has been replenished. Was down to 4 left.
14.01.2022 Follow the finger to the queen. She was a very young new queen as well.
13.01.2022 I rescued a TC hive from a very busted up log. Hive was fully exposed but encased in Batumen. The brood was put in the box and all bees vacuumed and put in the box also. A few days later a few thousand were back in one of the bowls with stores in it for them to scavenge from. As I take my time and try to remove all stores as intact as possible when I checked this bowl quite considerable work had been carried out. It was then I spotted a princess so I put the contents of that bowl with her in a new box. This is the brood after a week.
13.01.2022 We now have Tea plants available for sale. $12 each or 5 for $50 These make a perfect hedge, feed the native bees during winter when they are in flower & are drought resistant. Camellia Sinensis is the only camellia that is true to cultivar when grown from seed. Only about 10 seeds per hundred are viable and it takes a special process to get them to break through the seed coat. These plants are almost ready to be planted so their tap root does not get damaged by sitting in the pot to long. It’s the tap root these plants produce that make them drought resistant.
13.01.2022 This afternoons rescue. I do these late in the day so I can collect all the foragers as they return home. It’s all a numbers game and all bees are valuable to the hives success.
13.01.2022 We now have bee earrings and hat pins back in stock. Made by a local artist In glasshouse mountains.
11.01.2022 My next load arrived yesterday. 210 lengths of white cypress One length makes a box. These all need to be put through the thicknesser 6x each and then stacked to dry some more. Cypress only has a 3% shrinkage between green and dry. And has an outdoor life of 45 years untreated.
09.01.2022 Guess who loves Rose leaves. Yes the Leafcutter Bee. She constructs her nest with the leaves. It has many compartments with food and an egg laid into each one.
08.01.2022 Thanks to the dedicated tree loppers that save native bees. I’m very happy when I receive a call or text to save natives. These will be transferred into a native bee box for our next childcare centre install.
07.01.2022 The hive in the bucket is now in the box. Had 2 seperate broods next to each other so it took up the whole bottom of the box.
07.01.2022 34 boxes completed. Waiting for the clear coats (3 of) to harden. I have decided to include a new size of 250x250 external that will fit Bob the bee mans honey frames & are a great size for AA.
07.01.2022 Today’s workshop hive. Despite a large space within the styrofoam box they curtained off an area as evident on the inside of the lid. I spent over an hour vacuuming bees from the work table after the workshop to add back to the hive. These bees had never left the hive so had no reference point to return home. Numbers are very good.
07.01.2022 Putting the last coat on the last 20 boxes from the last 200 lengths of cypress. Next to wrap and move them in to the bee office. Then move everything to make room to put the next 210 lengths through the thicknesser and into the drying racks.
05.01.2022 Just one of the things that can go wrong with buying logs. You do not know what’s in the log as we do not have X-ray vision. This log had bees coming and going from the entry. But no Brood. It had been cut off between the stores and the brood. Unfortunately the brood stayed with the other section. I had just split this open with block splitters so was a bit out of breath when doing the video.
05.01.2022 A nice freshly hatched Blue Banded bee. Nice shots Geoffrey Dutton
01.01.2022 Nice size brood & numbers.
