In this issue:

• 2019 CONFERENCE

  • The Art and Science of Beekeeping

  • Details of this year’s special three- day bee celebration at Richmond

• Our Speakers

  • Discover some of the experts who will be presenting

• How, What, When and Beds

  • Time to make your plans. Here’s what you need to know

• Seasonal Tasks

  • How to winter your bees

• Member Benefits

  • Log book questions answered

• Bee Behaviour

  • Messy landing boards explained

• President’s Letter

  • How to thrive in boom times

• Biosecsecurity

  • April is Sugar Shake Month. Check your bees and be a good citizen scientist

• Inter Club Contest

  • Colonel Pulling gets a makeover. Here are the details of the new – and simpler to enter – contest. Be in it!

• Member Awards

  • Calling all brilliant minds, clever hands, smart thinkers and cheery faces! New awards for beekeepers

• Contacts

• Inveterate inventor

  • Catching elusive queens

In this issue:

• 2019 CONFERENCE: The Art and Science of Beekeeping

• Member Benefits: Log Book for 2019: Get yours now!

• Seasonal Tips: Inspections in hot weather

• Tree ID: Lemon Scented Tea Tree

• President’s Letter: The Joy of Entering Honey Shows

• Regulations: Powers of the Bee Inspector

• Club Competition: Get ready: 2019 Interclub Contest

• Individual Awards: ABA celebrates beekeepers like you

• Bee Tactics: Four ways to find the Queen

• Insurance update

• Bee Science: New findings on how varroa attacks

• Overheard: Bee store musings

• Biosecurity: Code of Practice: How to get a copy

• Contacts

• ABA Business: Next council meeting

• Beekeeping Hacks: Moving a hive a short distance

• Inveterate inventor: Preparing cut comb

In this issue:

• Fees and Premiums

  • ABA: Good news for members

• Records

  • Logbook

• What’s in Flower?

  • Brush Box essentials

• President’s Letter

  • 2018 in review

• Biosecurity Safety

  • A warning on the use of Phostoxin and similar treatments

• Club News

  • Book: Bee Gardens in Goulburn

  • Blue Mountains and New England

• Bee Whispering

  • Read your bees without lifting the lid, and more

• Look out for the Bee Double

• Biosecurity

  • Know your code

  • Update on ACCC

• Contacts

• Code of Practice

• Native Bee Guide

• Baby warning

• Honeybee Health Survey

• Pests

  • Dealing with Small Hive Beetle

  • Diy SHB trap: the recipe

• Inveterate inventor

  • Cut-out comb

• Seasonal tasks: Feeding Bees. How, when and why

• Bad habits: The ‘Attenborough sugar saga’

• President’s letter: Varroa action plan: at the ready

• Biosecurity quiz: Tropilaelaps. Test your knowledge

• Eucalypt ID course.

• Survey winner

• Conference: Survey results and comments

• Biosecurity: Know your code. Learn the rules

• Education: Mead making. Bee Ambassadors

• Council meeting.

• Contacts

• News bite 50 shades of drone

• Know your code answer

• Book review: A Guide to Native Bees of Australia

• Tocal Beekeepers’ Field Day 2018

• Biosecurity rules Nuisance bees

• Vote for pollinator supporters

• Behaviour Bee Toes

• Member news Pollen in the limelight, Club life member

• Inveterate inventor Branding boxes

• Club contacts

• Conference moments

• Raffle winners

• Meet the new president

• Win a painted hive

• Col Pulling results

• Judges remarks

• Photos. New executive team

• Honey cake recipe

• Cards, councils and currency

• Buckets. FAQ insurance

• Manuka. Honey giveaway

• Member news

• Rumours and ruined hives

• DIY Sugar shake funnel

In this issue:

• Sugar Shake Month. Learn a new skill
• Conference and Field Day. Details
• Deadlines for Col Pulling. Pro Tips
• Volunteer! Take a stall! Bee there!
• Meet our lineup of speakers
• Next generation keepers
• Bumblebee incursion: behind the scenes
• How to winter bees
• Making cosmetics? Important rules
• Honey Show. Judge’s report
• Quiz: Test your varroa knowledge
• Club grants
• DIY Sugar Shaker
• Executive tasks
• Moving bees. Contacts

In this issue:

• Events. Competition rules
• Hints and tips for winning prizes
• Varroa discovery. Hive branding
• ABA Conference: Tickets and outline
• New honey label regulations: Get ready
• Easter Show Volunteers
• Tribute to John Humphries
• ABA Shop. Yass Weekend. Sugar shake
• RAS entries. ABA history
• Inveterate Inventor: uncapped frame stand
• Neonic victory. Contest winner. Research
• Collecting swarms: right vs wrong ways
• Club contacts and executive.
• 2018 CONFERENCE TICKET DETAILS

In this issue:

• 2018 Membership Now Open
• AFB Survey Results. City Field Day
• Announcing 2018 Conference Details And Ticket Offer
• Stop Package Bees Absconding
• Melopita: Ricotta Honey Cake
• Three Ways To Show-And-Tell
• New Bee Discovery   
• Biosecurity Officer. Bee Identification
• Illawarra Guests. Contest Win
• Build Your Own Bee Vac    
• Spotlight On: Manning Valley   
• Clubs On The Move
• Contacts And Resources

In this issue:

• AFB AWARENESS MONTH
• Biosecurity News. Diary dates
• Rego fee freeze. Member cards. Swarms
• When to open hives after winter. Contest
• Council meeting 29 October. ABA shop
• Science or Snake Oil: Manuka honey
• Ask a beekeeping expert
• Tocal Field Day 14 October
• Decoding the language of bees
• Warning signs. Spring tips. Apiary ID
• Biosecurity: splitting hives, almond season
• Inner West Field Day 28 October
• Inveterate Inventor on warming cabinets
• Free Guide to Identifying Bees etc
• Club contacts. Links. Executive