If you’re in Sydney, grab a seat at UTS City Campus Great Hall to hear Dr Nural Cokcetin talk about her groundbreaking work on using honey to treat skin infections
The Amateur Beekeeper - August/September 2017
In this issue
- THE NEW RULES OF BEEKEEPING
- Biosecurity Code of Practice
- Manual, Registration Fees, Notifying Problems
- Editorial: Getting the new rules to work
- Our message to the Minister & Director General
- Introducing the new ABA president
- Anaphylaxis first aid: faster, simpler
- Refining waste wax – safely – with your microwave
- Ask the experts: our new online helpdesk
- Honey wanted! Help protect Australia’s reputation
- Hive hints. History. And bee facts
- Save the date! Tocal Field Day October 14
- DPI’s Rod Bourke on beekeeping for productivity
- Around the clubs. Warré thoughts
- Inveterate Inventor vs candy
- Club contacts. Links
Parramatta newsletter - August 2017
In this Issue
- Are you in the market for a new extractor?
- New Biosecurity Act of 2016
- July Event – Christmas in July Dinner, Wednesday, 12 July 2017 - Summary
- August Club Event – Swarm Management and Capture – Norm Webb
- Feature – Another tried and tested method of melting Wax - Microwave oven vs Conventional oven
- Supplementary feeding of bees using external feeders
- Are you swarm ready?
- Club Library
- First spring hive inspection
- Spring management of bees
- Why is it best to wait for spring to remove an established nest?
- 2017 Quick Reference to key position holder’s contacts
- Beekeeper Training Available
- Club Shop
- ABA Fees 2017
- Training Certificates
- Future events - 2017, 2018
Mid North Coast newsletter - July 2017
It is a bit risky to requeen at this time of year, because of low food sources. But at Sharif’s, the bees were bringing in plenty of pollen, presumably from the clover in the grass, the Billygoat weed (purple flower), Fireweed (yellow flower), and banana flowers in the background. The hives were in a nice sunny spot on top of a hill. There seemed to be no sign of winter.
Bega Valley newsletter - July 2017
Northern Rivers newsletter - July 2017
The beehives were very quiet in June because there was a poor flowering of Melaleuca quinquenervia (broad-leaved paperbark) this year. This is a short budding, high yielding – of both nectar and good quality pollen – Australian native that flowers prolifically nearly every year in the Far North Coast. This year was their off year!
2017 Tocal Beekeepers' Field Day
9am - 4pm, Saturday 14 October
Tocal College, Tocal Road, Paterson NSW
The Tocal Beekeepers Field Day has been running for 38 years, and is run by the ABA, NSW Apiarists Association, Department of Primary Industry and Tocal College.
As well as practical demonstrations of hiving a swarm, opening a native stingless hive, and building frames and boxes, there will be talks by talks throughout the day on subjects as diverse as Pollination and Medicinal Honey.
Admission is free, and the public are welcome, so come along and meet the beekeepers!
Guest Speakers
Bruce White OAM
Beekeeping around the world
Bruce White has been keeping bees for well over 60 years. Since his retirement as Principal Apiary Officer with the DPI, he has continued to work untiringly to pass on his extensive beekeeping knowledge.
Dr Doug Somerville
Honey bee pollination
Dr Doug Somerville is the technical specialist for honeybees within the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI). Dr Somerville has worked with honeybees in the DPI for over 25 years. Research publications in this role have included topics on pollination, supplementary feeding bees, honeybee nutrition, small hive beetle, bee collected pollens and floral resources
Elizabeth Frost
Beekeeping courses,
Qualifications and Traineeships
Elizabeth Frost is Honeybee Educator at Tocal College. She is particularly interested in queen bee breeding, and she is the author of the DPI AgGuide on Queen Bee Breeding.
Dr Diana Leemon
Small Hive Beetle research
Rod Burke
NSW Bee Biosecurity Officer
As NSW Bee Biosecurity Officer, Rod Burke is part of a joint industry–government initiative to look after Australia's honey bees. Her responsibilities include raising awareness of honeybee pests and diseases, and demonstrating best practice beekeeping, as well as promoting the National Bee Biosecurity Code of Practice.
DPI Career Opportunity
Macarthur newsletter - July 2017
A honeybee can carry up to 30 percent of its body weight in pollen because of the strategic spacing of its nearly three million hairs. The gap between each eye hair is approximately the same size as a grain of dandelion pollen, which is typically collected by bees. This keeps the pollen suspended above the eye and allows the forelegs to comb through and collect the particles. The legs are much hairier and the hair is very densely packed -- five times denser than the hair on the eyes.