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Locality: Bucca, Queensland, Australia

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25.01.2022 There will be a good van onsite selling meals on the day. No dogs are permitted at this event

22.01.2022 If you have a bee hotel (or if you’re thinking of making one), this is a very useful guide to identifying some of the native bees you may see.

21.01.2022 Stingless bee mating. Here we see a mating swarm of stingless bees. I keep lots of colonies of stingless bees at home, and these 4 hive’s sit in my veggie patch and I noticed this activity last Sunday. ... It’s the result of a recently separated ‘budding’ or ‘eduction’. You’ll notice the hive in question, is an OATH style, but it has the entrance in the top section. This ‘down under style’ is a concept by Dean Haley, which I have copied. The brood chamber has a hinged lid with a viewing panel and the honey Super sits at the bottom, rather than at the top. The budding was taking a while, so I added some brood from another hive and this is the result. Unrelated male bees travel great distances from many other colonies, and the virgin queen will fly into this congregation of males and mate with one of them. This very different from the way in which European honey bees mate. She flies back into the hive and will never fly again. After a few days she starts lying eggs. I’ve made a short video to capture the process and results.

20.01.2022 The queen lays an egg (Part 2) In this video, the queen is seen checking the workers have adequately provisioned the cell. When she is satisfied, she inserts her abdomen into the cell, lays her egg, and off she goes to repeat the process.... The worker bees then immediately cap the cell. In terms of time frames, the egg hatches after about 6 days, and pupates around day 20. The adult bee will emerge on day 50.

20.01.2022 Corymbia ficifolia, commonly known as the red flowering gum. Covered in bees this evening

18.01.2022 This workshop is highly recommended for anyone in the area wanting to know more about stingless bees

18.01.2022 Two events this weekend, hosted by Widebay Singless bees 1 Saturday meeting of widebay ANBA (members only) 2 Sunday. Stingless bee workshop, with the lovely Sarah Hamilton from ‘bee yourself, Alex Derrick From ‘spicers hollows stingless bees’ and Tony from ‘widebay stingless bees’. Entry cost is $10, see details below. Highly recommended!,,,

17.01.2022 Log colonies available. Tetragonula Hockingsi, Tetragonula Carbonaria and Austroplebeia species. All logs are solid with good colonies inside. Interested parties message bee prepared (link below) for photos and details. https://www.facebook.com/BeePrepared/

17.01.2022 An interesting split at the workshop yesterday in Sydney. This hive lacks split bars. Split bars facilitate an even division between the two boxes. In this case... the adhesion between the two parts of the nest was stronger than that to the walls of the hive top box. The hive top box thus pulled right off leaving the nest as a single unit. Toby decided not to proceed with the division, but to put it back together. However, it presented an opportunity to show a view of a nest that is not often seen. See the pillars connecting the nest to the box wall. See the brood chamber reaching right up to the top of the hive. A spectacular strong colony laid open for inspection. See more

15.01.2022 Here’s a brilliant opportunity for kids who are at home, and interested in native bees. Dr Toby Smith is a fantastically engaging and knowledgeable educator. There’s so much to learn about native bees

15.01.2022 Happy world bee day

14.01.2022 Stingless bees preparing a brood cell (Part 1). Here’s what I watched while checking on my stingless bee hives this evening. Unlike honey bees, which ‘progressively provision’ the brood cell to feed the larvae, stingless bees ‘Mass provision’ the brood cell, prior to an egg being laid.... Here we can see the queen, (Austroplebeia Cassiae), waiting while the workers provision a brood cell. What they are doing is filling the cell with all the food the larva needs for its entire development to pupa by regurgitating a mixture of honey, pollen and glandular secretions. See more

10.01.2022 Today we were fortunate enough to have our Native Bee hive installed. Kids were so excited!! Thank you to Tony and Sharon from Wide Bay Stingless Bees for don...ating the bees and their hive. Thank you also to Alex from Spicers Hollow Native Bees for creating and donating the lockable cage to protect it. We very much appreciate your generosity. Now bees, get busy pollinating our flowers and vegetables !! See more

09.01.2022 Honey bees I’m glad to say that my European Honey bees, which I keep at a Macadamia & Avocado farm, are doing okay. It’s been a really tough few months for all insects with drought and fire and now torrential rain and flooding. Although the farm has a diverse flora with lots of other flowering plants and native bush land, the bees have suffered through the drought and have required supplementary feeding. Then, some of them were affected by the very heavy rain last week and go...t water inside the hives. I’m happy to say that the hives are all now dry, independently bringing in nectar and pollen and all colonies are expanding in bee numbers. Also I didn’t see any hive beetles which is good too. I’ve added some supers to some of the hives today. Stingless bees I’m also thankful that the native stingless bees, while they have slowed a bit through the drought, have generally fared much better.

09.01.2022 Look at this !!! Head over to Wide bay Stingless bees page for a chance to win some fabulous prizes

09.01.2022 Eduction (or budding) Australian Native Stingless Bees. I’ve put together a video of how I carry out an eduction, to duplicate a hive of stingless bees. Here in Bundaberg, we can probably get away with duplicating hives for most of the year, but if you’re further south, you’ll likely get better results in spring.... This method is an alternative to ‘splitting hives’. You will see that I use 13 mm poly irrigation hose to join the two hives together. While many people insert a T Piece in the tube, I personally have never found it necessary. When I see brood in the new hive (daughter hive), I will typically drill a small hole in the middle, lower section of the tube to allow bees to come and go from either box and separate the two boxes about 4-5 weeks after evidence of brood and a new queen is seen. This is normally a few days before the new baby bees (Callow’s) start to emerge from the brood in the new box, so the separated colony can function independently without a drop in bee numbers associated with a mass of immature brood which is not yet producing new bees. As with any method of hive duplication, only proceed if you’re happy that the mother colony is full and strong.

08.01.2022 Check this out....... The first online stingless beekeeping course from Native bee Nick. Follow the link below

07.01.2022 Blue banded bees (Amegilla cingulata) on a weed in the yard this morning. Photo credit :Kerrie Kerrie Daley

06.01.2022 Hockingsi stingless bee log hive for sale, see attached post

03.01.2022 The honey bees are back on the farm, now on custom made pallets for easy movements (with a fork lift). Big thanks to Kerrie Daley (Queen bee), for all her help. Now the stingless native bees get all the food resources at home

03.01.2022 I received this delicious honey today from Mademoiselle bee, along with some basil and borage seeds for the bees. If you haven’t tried it already, her honey is A1 !! Head over to her fb page (Mademoiselle Bee) and like and share. She’s one of our great beekeeping ambassadors.

02.01.2022 A friend has two logs of Austroplebeia available for sale. $400 each both with hardwood bases and capped to keep moisture and predators out. Interested parties can contact us here for details