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24.01.2022 Australian Pollinator Week. is nearly here. Have you checked out the events? As part of our Powerful Pollinator series you can join Dr Anna Carrucan from Wheen Bee Foundation and Dr Megan Halcroft from Bees Business, for a webinar to: Find out how important pollinators are in our urban landscapes... Discover how to encourage pollinator populations in your garden be introduced to our new planting guide and how it can help you select suitable pollinator-friendly plants for your garden. https://www.australianpollinatorweek.org.au/explore/

23.01.2022 Have you thought about introducing hive monitoring technologies but don’t know where to start? Are you looking to make changes or improvements but are stuck in making a choice? The 5Bees program is here to help. 5Bees is a program that supports commercial beekeepers recover from bushfire and drought. The program helps beekeepers adapt in the face of climate variability, including drought, bushfire and floods, and the impact this has on floral resource availability. Applicati...ons close on the 31st January 2021. To download the Prospectus or find out more go to: https://www.wheenbeefoundation.org.au/our-work/5-bees/ See more

23.01.2022 Pretty excited about todays webinar, as part of Australian Pollinator Week. Have you got your ticket yet? https://events.humanitix.com/after-the-fires

22.01.2022 Our Powerful Pollinator guides list what plants flower when for particular regions, and the pollinators they are likely to attract. Check out the available guides here: https://www.wheenbeefoundation.org.au//powerful-pollinato/ Or if you would like to enquire about having a guide produced for your area contact us here: [email protected]

22.01.2022 Have you heard about our Powerful Pollinators Project? The Program encourages the strategic planting of ‘trees for bees’ and other pollinators and provides Pollinator Planting Guides developed by experienced botanists and field ecologists for use by landholders. Join Dr Anna Carrucan from Wheen Bee Foundation and Dr Megan Halcroft from Bees Business, for a Powerful Pollinators webinar relating to the regions in West Gippsland and Westernport, Victoria. Tickets are limited,... to find out more go to: https://www.australianpollinatorweek.org.au//powerful-pol/ See more

18.01.2022 2020, what a year! Bushfires devastated our landscape, then Covid changed the way we live, work and move around our country. We would like to thank you so much for your continued support in an extraordinary year.... May the Christmas Season bring you some peace, some smiles, and we look forward to further helping our amazing bees in 2021. Thank-you and merry Christmas.

17.01.2022 The 5Bees Program: What is it? Have you thought about introducing hive monitoring technologies but don’t know where to start? Are you looking to make changes or improvements but are stuck in making a choice? The 5Bees program is here to help. 5Bees is a program that supports commercial beekeepers recover from bushfire and drought. The program helps beekeepers adapt in the face of climate variability, including drought, bushfire and floods, and the impact this has on floral re...source availability. Register for the free webinar to find out more: https://events.humanitix.com/5-bees

16.01.2022 Wheen Bee Foundation is a proud supporter of the Green Carpenter Bee conservation project. Initially started on Kangaroo Island, the focus of this project has recently expanded due to the impacts of the 2020 catastrophic bushfires. As part of Australian Pollinator Week free webinars, you have the opportunity to join Dr Richard Glaz, Dr Remko Leijs and Dr Katja Hogendoorn as they discuss the history of the Green Carpenter Bee, the current programs, and the next steps towards ...reclaiming the species. To find out more: https://www.australianpollinatorweek.org.au//after-the-fi/

10.01.2022 Australian Pollinator week runs from 8th til the 15th of November. Join us as we discover some of Australia’s most intriguing native bees and learn why we need to get to know them. https://www.australianpollinatorweek.org.au//discovering-/

09.01.2022 GivingTuesday is an opportunity to give back to the organisations making a difference. For one day each year, individuals, communities and business come together to give their time, money, goods or voices, to celebrate and thank Australian not-for-profits. To read our news article on GivingTuesday go to: ... https://www.wheenbeefoundation.org.au//news/giving-tuesday/ See more

07.01.2022 Join Costa & Fiona as they discuss how to create a pollinator friendly habitat, for your balcony, urban and rural gardens. Online Zoom Webinar next week. Registration now open. https://www.trybooking.com/BMIAB

05.01.2022 Giving Tuesday is finally here. Find out how you can help keep our bees buzzing https://youtu.be/1az-16E67JE

05.01.2022 Dr Anna Carrucan from Wheen Bee Foundation is a guest speaker today, sharing the news about Australian Pollinator Week and our wonderful bees.

05.01.2022 During the Discover Bees webinar the different species of bees was discussed, which leads to today's fast fact. Webinar recording available on our website: https://www.wheenbeefoundation.org.au/our-work/discoverbees/

04.01.2022 Building Better Beekeeping Businesses after Bushfires - 5 Bees. Due to technical difficulties the Webinar has been rescheduled, and is now taking place tomorrow. To book your place go to: https://events.humanitix.com/5-bees-webinar

04.01.2022 We have just added donation cards to our shop, with 3 funds to choose from: Discover Bees: Australia’s native bees are critically important but poorly known, with an estimated 1,000 native bee species not yet discovered, named or documented.... DiscoverBees is the most important and ambitious campaign ever attempted to discover and document Australia’s native bee species, having an enormous impact for agriculture, horticulture, conservation and the environment. 5 Bees Building Better Beekeeping Business after Bushfire The 5Bees Program helps commercial beekeepers recover from bushfire and drought. The program focusses on beekeeping business viability and supports beekeepers to make decisions and changes that will improve their business productivity, performance and profit in the face of climate variability. Green Carpenter Bee: The Green Carpenter Bee is a large iconic native bee species. It is beautiful jewel green in colour, and is friendly and harmless. The species is extinct on mainland South Australia and Victoria but still exists on Kangaroo Island. A group of dedicated people are working tirelessly to save it. To buy or find other actions to help go to: https://www.wheenbeefoundation.org.au/shop/

03.01.2022 We are extremely fortunate to have had a song written for this years Australian Pollinator week, by Michael Fine. Thanks to some very talented photographers we have created a video to go along with it. Go to https://www.australianpollinatorweek.org.au/ to listen and see this fabulous piece. Thanks Michael for creating such a great song and sharing it with us.

01.01.2022 Australian Pollinator Week.2020 Live Q&A 4pm AEDT What a great week of pollinator awareness events and activities there has been going on around the country. As... a thankyou to everyone who has been involved, organised an event online or participated in the Wild Pollinator Count or just looked and seen some activity in their neighbourhood or who wants to learn more about our pollinators we are having a question and answer session where you can bring your questions about our pollinators and have them answered by some of our most amazing pollinator advocates from around the country. From Central Tablelands of NSW Science Communicator, conservationist specialising in Wild Pollinator Count and native bees from Bee Business we will be joined by Dr Megan Halcoft From Sydney Native Bees and Vice President of the Australian Native Bee Association Dan Smailes From Melbourne and CEO of the Wheen Bee Foundation we have Fiona Chambers From Brisbane and President of the Australian Native Bee Association from Sugarbag Bees entomologist Dr Tim Heard And from Perth we are being joined by PhD Researcher from Bees in the burbs and Native Bee Educator Kit Prendergast. This is one mighty panel of specialists who are super keen to take your questions about our native pollinators as well as wrap up Pollinator Week for 2020. We will be live from 4pm Send in any questions in advance or bring them along to the chat from 4pm AEDT. Image : Xylocopa (Lestis) aerata female Sydney’s Northern Beaches * Dan Smailes Sydney Native Bee Rescue Sydney stingless bees Australian Native Bees on Aussie Bee Website Australian Native Bee Association Australian Stingless Bees + other native bees Australian Native Bee South Australian Native Bees Australian Native Bees Tamworth Australian Native Bee Network Stingless Bees Native Stingless Beekeeping Greg's Native Stingless Bees Native Bee Nick Brisbane Valley Bees - native bee rescue. North Queensland Native Stingless Bees Bexhill Native Stingless Bees Cairns Native Stingless Bees Ninderry Native Stingless Bees Native Stingless Bees PH Native stingless Bees for Bello Native Bee Care Australia Pollinator Alliance Pollinator Friendly Alliance Planet Ark Sustainability News National Sustainable Living Festival Milkwood Australian Native Plant Enthusiasts forum Australian Ethnobotany & Sustainable Gardening Sustain: The Australian Food Network Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance @