Sugarbag Bees in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | Environmental consultant

Sugarbag Bees

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3844 4914

Address: 473 Montague Road, West End 4101 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.sugarbag.net

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25.01.2022 Palisa Anderson, chef and farmer from Byron Bay shares her deep feelings for stingless bees. https://www.theguardian.com//stingless-sugarbags-the-joys-

25.01.2022 Steve visited us today and it did not take him long to write up his thoughts on our vertical observation hive.

24.01.2022 You can determine the health and strength of a hive in a few ways including its foraging activity. For carbonaria and hockingsi, you should be able to observe at least 20 incoming bees in the one-minute period. At a strong hive entrance, you will typically observe between 30 and 60 bees per minute returning. You may observe up to 100 incoming bees at a very strong hive. Read more on pages 182-183 of The Australian Native Bee Book.

23.01.2022 Nesting materials include various substrates known to be used by a diversity of native bees. Agave flower stalks are very soft to attract carpenters. Bamboo is a massive favourite for leaf cutters and resin bees (especially holes of 3-8 mm. Reed bees love lantana pithy centred lantana. Beetle bores holes in a timber is popular.

23.01.2022 Starting to stock our bee hotels with nesting materials. The bottom section will house the earth bricks for Blue banded bees. This part is close to the ground and surrounded by a brick wall to maintain thermal stability; but raised above the ground to keep dry. The wide shelves give protection from sun and rain to the niches inside. The overhanging roof gives further protection.

20.01.2022 Fantastic image of a gorgeous colour resin around the entrance to a wild stingless bee nest in a dead tree on the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The resin appeared suddenly probably coinciding with damage to the source tree that produced a resin flow. I am guessing it is from the turpentine tree, Syncarpia glomifera. Any other informed suggestions? Thanks for the image Nick Clancy, Conservation Officer, Sunshine Coast Council.

20.01.2022 A colony of hockingsi stingless bees rescued from a landscaping operation took only minutes to orientate to a new home in a hive box. The original exterior entrance structures were retrieved and placed around the hive box entrance hole and the hive was kept in the original nest position.

20.01.2022 Thanks to Dr Toby for meeting with some awesome local beekeepers at Oxenford State School, Helensvale State School, Highland Reserve State School today. Splitt...ing hives, turning three into six, and sharing the joy of native bee keeping with three new sites. A great experience for the young people today listening to the worlds most passionate Australian Native bee keeper - Bee Aware #NaturallyGC #Bees #Honey

19.01.2022 A stunning image of T. carbonaria stingless bees harvesting eucalypt resin. They use their jaws and legs to gather this sticky substance and then pass it to the pollen baskets on the hind legs for transport back to the nest. The nature of the surface of their bodies is such that they can handle it without getting mired.

19.01.2022 Our new bee hotel is coming along. Base is a case for mud bricks because who doesn't love blue banded bees. Top will be stuffed with all manner of nesting materials. Just in time for spring.

18.01.2022 Samuel Perichon visited us in July of this year. Samuel is a French geographer with an interest in ethnic honey use. He has written up his perceptions of Australian stingless bee keepers regarding Aboriginal beliefs and practices. An interesting read available for download here, https://www.tandfonline.com/epri/GZ2DRHCRUU4HJJMPI5EK/full

18.01.2022 Brisbane branch is meeting today 1 pm at THECA, 47 Fleming Rd, Chapel Hill. to watch this walk and talk with Dan Smailes and Costa Georgiadis. Then we will hold our AGM. Please join us. Register to ensure your seat, https://australiannativebee.org.au/event-4016803

17.01.2022 Tim talks pollination.

17.01.2022 Tim presented a stingless Bee Hive Management demonstration last November in Sydney. A professional quality video is free to view here: https://youtu.be/4itFClJnCk4. Thanks to Amateur Beekeepers Association of NSW, and Emmanuel Farrugia, founder of Save Our Bees Australia.

17.01.2022 Adam is a pioneer of using stingless bees for crop pollination. Using mainly T hockingsi for avocado, Adam has learnt much over the last decade. He has learnt to manage insecticides, poor nutrition, and drift fighting. Some lessons were learnt the hard way but ultimately that is what forges real knowledge and expertise.

16.01.2022 Ed and Glenda from Westlake in Brisbane’s west obtained a hive of stingless bees in 2013. They have had heaps of fun breeding bees and built up to 18 hives. This year they decided to focus on honey production. They extracted a bountiful 12 kg and have sold it bulk to Sugarbag Bees helping us to get back into the honey retailing business.

15.01.2022 Life of stingless bees. Seminar on 5 Dec 2020. Learn about how stingless bees build their nests, rear their young and stock their hives with food. Discover how you can keep them for fun, honey production, conservation or pollination. During this 60 minute seminar, entomologist and professional educator, Dr Tim Heard will teach you the basics of how bees live and how you can use this information to become a stingless beekeeper. Free but bookings required. Email the event title..., your name and contact phone number to [email protected] or phone Brisbane Square Library on 3403 4166 to secure your place. There are a limited number of tickets available to join Dr Tim Heard live in The End Room at BSQ Library for this event. When the in-person event is fully booked we’ve got you covered with the online Zoom session. Need some help using Zoom? Check out this getting started guide. https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.a...

14.01.2022 The 8th run The Australian Native Bee Book has just come back from the printers. Although we have not yet released a full revision, we make minor changes at each print run. E.g. in the latest we update the new information on the rare and healthy sugar, trehalulose, just discovered in stingless bee honey.

14.01.2022 Tim and Ais are heading to the field tomorrow to film this talk to be presented on Sunday.

14.01.2022 Thank you Natura Pacific for the chance to promote native bees on your podcast series.

13.01.2022 Austroplebeia are such clean bees that they are a great choice for an observation hive and this one that Alex and Sam from spicers hollow native bees (https://w...ww.facebook.com/Spicers-Hollow-Native-Bees-1114310725384294/) showed us while we were in brisbane over the weekend is a perfect example of why we think they are. Look at the honey pots, some empty, some completely full and others part way. The brood of the Austroplebeia species is much looser than that of Tetragonula because the wax lacks the amount of resins other species use. If you look closely at the brood area you will see they almost look like rice bubbles, neither as densely packed in as Tetragonula species nor as much propolis holding it all together. This species of bees homes are so delicate that when a tree is felled with them in it, unless the utmost of care is taken there is most often a vast amount of damage done to the colony’s structures. These observation hives are an excellent way to have a look at bees behaviour and watching them grow without disturbing their nest. See more

10.01.2022 A beautiful strong colony of Tetragonula hockingsi stingless bees with an interesting smooth entrance structure in the foreground.

10.01.2022 A workshops for those in the Wide Bay area who would like to know more about native bees.

09.01.2022 Great educational work by Ian Driver, A Green Soul.

08.01.2022 This pot contains stingless bee propolis. We processed a batch today by melting it in the sun. Sure stirred up interest among the resin bees checked into the bee hotel in the background.

05.01.2022 Native stingless bees used to pollinate native fruit trees (Gubinge or Kadadu plum) in the Kimberley, https://www.abc.net.au//programs//gubinge-orchard/12895196

04.01.2022 Please join us this afternoon

04.01.2022 Had fun with Wayne Berry today rescuing a colony of T. hockingsi stingless bees from the root of a plant. The bees found their new home in a hive easily due to two methods. First, we found the original entrance structure and placed it around the hive box entrance hole. Second, we placed the hive with the entrance in the original position. The bees rushed the new entrance as if being drawn in by a vacuum.

04.01.2022 A lovely yet accurate image of a blue banded bee adorns this bottle. Have not yet tried the wine but you cant deny the marketing appeal. Happy Friday everyone.

03.01.2022 Thanks Steve for this story. Please consider donating some honey to the ANBA honey analysis project.

01.01.2022 Glen interviewed Tim last week and put together an annotated YouTube video. Hope you enjoy it.