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Cairns Native Bee

Locality: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 458 164 199

Address: Bayview 4868 Cairns, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 Black boy Xanthorrhoea australis, the grass tree.

25.01.2022 Defatted soy flour

24.01.2022 Packing A. cincta Honey. smooth aniseed flavour with no tang! High viscosity with a water content of 18.8%. My all time favourite honey. Yum.

24.01.2022 Speaker to box transfer. Hocks

22.01.2022 The September monthly online event of the Australian Native Bee Association is coming to you from a macadamia nut farm in full flower. Learn about the intricaci...es of pollination, how flower biology and bee behaviour interact to produce a top crop. Discover the best way to manage bees on a farm for the mutual benefit of bees and food production. Dr Tim Heard will show you around a picturesque farm on the Sunshine Coast. Tim has a long-term interest in bees and crop pollination. He will explain how there is more to it than you might think, but it is an absorbing topic of great significance. The online events are interactive, attendees can ask questions by typing them on the post at any time. Please show your supporting by joining our association. https://australiannativebee.org.au/join-us.

22.01.2022 2x TH hives in separate elk horns. These colony’s were found by a thoughtful arborist during palm tree lopping. The entire backs of the hives were exposed and under attack from green ants. @ Yorkeys Knob, Queensland, Australia

20.01.2022 Clypearis wall. Part 2.

20.01.2022 Eduction set up. Colony is said to be 4+ years old residing inside a cavity in this gate Column, using a hole made for Wiring as an entrance point.

19.01.2022 The Cup hive - 2 cups buried at the base of a pot plant, using the drip hole as entry. pull plant out, 2 cups - one only stores, the other just brood, place cups together. Drill hole and tape together. And yes it’s sapiens, who else

16.01.2022 /Part 2/ Another special thanks is in order to the Mossman team of Biodynamics FNQ Inc for hosting me as a guest speaker 19/07/20-Presenting Native Bees. It’s always great to meet curious bee enthusiasts!

16.01.2022 T. Clypearis brood circle

16.01.2022 Beautiful pollen display!

16.01.2022 Resin bee balling up wax with mandibles.

16.01.2022 How do our stingless bees keep warm in winter? A recent study identified nurse bees with a surface temperature 4C above that of other bees in the brood area. T...he ‘hot bees’ are thought to contribute to the maintenance of warmth in the brood. (Roldão-Sbordoni et al. (2019) Warming Nurses, a New Worker Role Recorded for the First Time in Stingless Bees. Journal of Economic Entomology, 112, 14851488. doi: 10.1093/jee/toy420.) See more

15.01.2022 Flower spider on a native sunflower.

13.01.2022 T. Clypearis defence.

10.01.2022 Good morning activity on this A. cincta hive.

09.01.2022 Males roosting on a chain swing chair.

09.01.2022 Endless work, box making. #nativebeehives

07.01.2022 Starting to fill up. A. Cincta

07.01.2022 Because the POP (Provisioning and Oviposition Process) is batched in Tetragonula, the whole colony is tuned to a cycle (of roughly five hours) with a long quiet... period of cell construction followed by a quick and frantic burst of activity when the workers provision the brood cells, the queen lays the eggs then the cells are quickly closed. See the frenetic active period on these T. hockingsi. See more

07.01.2022 /Part 1/ Big thanks to the Cairns Garden Club for asking me to speak on Native Bees at the first meeting in months! I had a fantastic time covering the in’s and out’s of tropical Native bee rescuing, rehoming or keeping. Displayed live hives as pictured - T.clypearis & T. sapiens 18/07/20 @ Cairns, Queensland, Australia

06.01.2022 Now Available @Honey Providore Native bee hives, triple tier 30mm OATH style Tassie oak Hardwood or Pine options Marine grade varnished ... Each set includes - Split bars, 2x viewing windows, 2x changeable vents, mini SS spring clips to lock lid down, nylon feet protectors. Visit Honey Providore 9-5pm Mon-Friday except Wednesday. 107-111 Newell st Bungalow.

06.01.2022 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

04.01.2022 Wild Natives robbing propolis and honey from EU honey bees In through the vents right to the honey super .

03.01.2022 Huh, didn’t expect to see that. A. cincta’s barging their way through a T. hockingsi manned entrance.

01.01.2022 Sugarbag honey .