This is roughly based on a few different designs. It shares the same 200mm x 200mm measurements as the Phone Box Hive internal frames, The Outhouse frames, and also has similar aspects as Tim Heard’s Mini OATH. I will be able to interchange these frames with the Phone Box and Outhouse for …
Drop in to Bees & Honey Eumundi on Saturday April 21 if you're in the area...The honey bees in our observation hive are having a rest as they are requeening at the moment. Our old girl that was a 2016 queen has passed recently ☹
The stingless native bees will be in the shop for viewing and a taste of their honey on Wednesday and Saturday this week. So pop in and learn about our smaller friends 🐝
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Native bees and how to keep them
Saturday 21 April 2018, 9am – 3pm
Coopers Plains Library, 109 Orange Grove Road, Coopers Plains
Free but bookings essential. Phone Coopers Plains Library on 07 3403 1530 to reserve your place.
Are you interested in keeping native stingless bees for fun, honey production, conservation or pollination? During this full day workshop, experience either Dr Tim Heard or Dr Tobias Smith (entomologists and professional educators) teach you the basics of how to become a stingless beekeeper
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If you want to learn more generally about bees, especially stingless bees and beekeeping, come along to half and full day workshops held in various venues in Qld and NSW. The workshops are a mix of ph...Here's a quick run down with photos for todays native bee workshop with Sarah from Bee Yourself, and Dean Bryant. It was good to catch up with a few people and i got to meet some new crazy bee people too.
Bee Yourself – Sarah & Dean – Native Bee Hives
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Sarah Hamilton from Bee Yourself Australia organised a Native Bee Workshop in Brisbane and invited Dean to demonstrate a couple of colony transfers and splits. There was great interest for the short n...For anyone that didn't get along to the Brisbane Native Bee Keepers Club meeting today, here's a short article with some info. Ann from Hive Haven, Richard Piper and Tim Heard spoke at the meeting. nativebeehives.com/brisbane-native-bee-club-meeting-08-04-18/
Brisbane Native Bee Club Meeting 08/04/18 – Native Bee Hives
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Ann Ross from Hive Haven described her journey from her first hive and through the development of the current Hive Haven product, version 9 were Hive Haven has recently received grants to develop the ...My latest design. "OctoFlowTree". Ten layers of Octagonal frames most accuratley recreates the natural shape of a hollow tree which the native bees thrive in. The bees will build their colony up through the hollow area. There's a tube that runs the full height of the tree hollow which the bees fill with honey pots. For easy honey collection you open the top lid and run a spear down the honey tube pearcing the honey pots, then simply turn the tap and the native bee honey flows out. # Edit .. yeap .. This is an April 1 post ;-) .. While setting up for the photos i thought it sounded rediculous enough, but after a while i thought, it might actually work, except the volume is huge and you'd mash up quite a few bees in the honey tube. ;-)
