I have been meaning to get out and visit Peter for like forever. As well as being one of our more seasoned bee keepers, Peter was responsible for helping discover and name one of our varieties of bees. The Tetragonula Davenporti. I wanted to catch up, hear the story about that and see what I…
Redirecting stingless bee swarms can be a challenge. When you have 9+ hives in a group, a swarm can be quite large. Just like people crowded in a street, if a big fight broke out it would be chaos! Bees have a great visual sensor as one of their many sensors. Although scent is a…
When Leonard Francis first rang me I was intrigued and excited. You see he explained that he had tried to get a hold of a stingless bee hive from Queensland but no one would sell him one because the bees would die in his climate. This is the story of keeping stingless bees in Canberra.…