In this issue:

• President’s letter

• Membership pack 2021/22

• COVID lockdowns: what beekeepers can and cannot do

• Lockdown decision chart

• Get your honey tested to fight AFB

• Beekeepers’ Field Day on October 16

• Recipe: Bake a French honey loaf

• Almond pollination time

• Waging war on Small Hive Beetles

• Get the most out of your membership in 2021/2022

• Profile of a young beekeeper

• Club news: Training with the experts

• Put your honey in Australia’s Honey Library: how to join the project

• New guides: identifying insects, and native stingless bee honey

• Learn from home

• Contact us

In this issue:

• President’s letter

• Membership pack 2021/22

• Notifiable pests and diseases: what’s on the list and how to check

• Chalkbrood research: what makes a hive develop problems.

• Sugar shake kits.

• Linton Briggs.

• Honey’s prebiotic powers

• Get the most out of your ABA membership

• Club news: Gold Coast, Hastings Valley and Hawkesbury updates

• Good news on funding for beekeeper training and short courses

• Drone congregation behaviours: how science is unlocking a puzzle

• Phostoxin: The rules, the dangers

• Learn from home: ideas to expand your knowledge and keep you entertained

In this issue:

• President’s letter

• Easter show news

• Have your say on NSW planning rules for beekeepers

• Sugar shake time. Make sure you do the test correctly: here’s how

• Nine things to remember when selling your honey

• How to avoid beekeeping accidents: Pointers for clubs and members

• Keep track of those bees! Know your record-keeping responsibilities when you sell, trade or giveaway bees (even swarms)

• E-records

• Two new clubs

• Acacia flowering chart

• Jargon explained

• Membership Q&A

• Celebrate World Bee Day on May 20. Ideas for events you can join and others you can organise

• All about Slovenian AZ hives: Adventures on the Gold Coast

• Learn at home

• Your help needed on future projects

• President’s letter

• Committee changes

• Free honey testing for AFB

• B-QUAL explained

• Embedding: the warm wax trick to get great frames

• How to report bee poisonings

• Nine things to remember when extracting honey

• Jim Wright’s grand adventures with bees

• ABA membership Q & A

• The allure of blue: how flowers attract bees’ attention

• Learn at home: links to useful sites and resources

• Bee puns and jokes: the winners

• Bees in the Snowy

• Club news from Wagga Wagga

• How to volunteer for the ABA

• Sugar shake testing: do before it gets too cold

• DIY projects. Learn to rear queen bees

In this issue:

• President’s letter

• News and campaigns

• Contaminated beeswax, and what you can do about it

• Catch boxes for swarms. Know the regulations

• Producing perfect wax combs. Why heat matters

• Catching the bug! Adventures of a new beekeeper

• When poison strikes. How to spot and treat affected hives

• Home learning resources.

• Selling, gifting or disposing of bees

• Planting guides.

• Naming 1000 native bees.

• Scholarships

• National Honey Levy and what it does to help all beekeeers

• Research projects into the future: electronic noses and superhoney

• Temper, temper! Cranky bees and how to tell how agro they really are

• How many bees it takes to . . .

• Toad at the Hive project

In this issue:

• ABA news

• Offers and campaigns

• Beeswax under fire. Four things you can do to help.

• AFB Awareness Month.

  • New alert system introduced

  • Two beekeepers tell how they dealt with AFB in their hives.

  • Special Steritech offer

• Extracting honey: tips for success and low mess

• Plan Bee: Breeding better queens.

  • Have your say on what traits matter

• Fight back against European wasps.

  • Act now to stop new nests.

  • Recipe for a trap that works

• Tocal Virtual Field Day speakers.

• Learn from home

• Swarms and the risks of AFB

• Beekeeping fail: proving we all learn from our mistakes!

• Our inveterate inventor is making mesh lids. Plus a quick fix

• Why you need a barrier system

• ABA team. How to contact us

In this issue:

• ABA news

• Contest results

• What to consider when putting bees on a roof. Read this first!

• Bee topics Q&A. Controlling small hive beetles in drawn comb

• How honey samples are tested for AFB in the lab

• Tocal Beekeepers’ Field Day 2020 - The Honey Show will go on!

• Beekeeper registration and the extractor that changed the rules

• The basics of sacbrood

• Free online training announced

• DIY boxes to transport honey frames with less mess

• Stingless-bee honey’s healthy wonder ingredient

• Stocking Australia’s honey reference library

• Club news: training and new resources

• Book review

• Join the swarm register

• ABA team. How to contact us

In this issue:

• ABA activities: an update

• Short film contest winners

• Code of Practice for beekeepers

  • Get ready for the new rules – Try our online quiz. Win a prize

• Artificial comb. A better solution or a bigger problem?

  • Bruce White reports

  • And a real life test with some very unexpected results

• Here’s how bees hang together to construct their comb

• Getting creative with hive decoration

• Virtual conference tickets

• European Foulbrood: a myth, and the facts on how to treat it

• Step-by-step guide to building and painting bee boxes to make them last

• When the diagnosis is American Foulbrood: the safe and correct way to deal with the aftermath

• Membership FAQs

• ABA team and contacts

In this issue:

• ABA round up

• Colonel Pulling interclub competition

  • The results are in!

  • Honey report. Special prizes

  • Club report and club promotion

  • Quiz round

  • What’s your score? Do the quiz online

• Tips and tricks

  • Honey: when to extract, how to show

• News

  • Coronavirus and beekeeping

• Biosecurity

  • Common questions about AFB answered

  • Testing honey for AFB

  • Sugar Shake campaign

• Contests

  • Can you make a bee-rated movie?

• Inveterate inventor

  • DIY steam box

• Native bees

  • Bee hotels: boon or bad idea?

  • Citizen science project

• Membership

  • 2020 details

  • ABA contacts

In this issue:

• Colonel Pulling Interclub Competition

  • How to enter the 2020 contest

  • Plus two extra prizes

• News

  • Updates from the ABA and clubs

• Membership

  • Membership packs mailing now

• Better beekeeping

  • When to feed sugar, pollen and water

• Inveterate inventor

  • Cleaning up old frames

• Biosecurity

  • Club project: testing honey for AFB

• Event weekend

  • Festival of Bees: Tickets now on sale

  • Member contests: Labels, hive art, yarns

• Regulation

  • Honey fraud: what needs to be done

  • APIMONDIA president’s open letter

• Better beekeeping

  • When bees are angry

  • AGM April 5 — Bathurst details

• Citizen science

  • Help stop exotic bee invasions

• Bee Q&A

  • Why some hives get stronger