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…
This has bee a long time dream of mine to use stingless bees for pollination, but when I first started asking people about this subject there was much talk of pesticides. With the previous world crisis with colony collapse with honey bees, I knew I had to go to an organic farm. I had to…
I have been meaning to get out and meet so many of our seasoned stingless bee keepers. One in particular is Doug Irvine. I remember when I first saw one of his hives at a wild life sanctuary and I was immediately taken with its appearance. Having worked with timber all my life I knew…
Removing bees from a water meter Bee Basics Water meters, walls , pipes and even compost heaps are places native bees love to live. Re-homing them is quite simple if you know what you’re doing. If you have done it before and it has failed do not feel bad as there is a…