Parramatta newsletter - August 2020

In this issue:

  • August Presentation – The hard life of the honey bee forager

  • President’s Report

  • Executive Report – July 2020

  • Beginning in Bees Training is coming

  • PAB 2021 Calendar – CANCELLED for 2021

  • Attention to all those selling their honey

  • About nectar and honey

  • Covid-19 update

  • Managing a Warre Hive

  • Congratulations – Timothy Kotlar

  • In the media

  • Club shop

  • Handy contact details

  • What’s on in 2020

The Amateur Beekeeper - August/September 2020

The Amateur Beekeeper - August/September 2020

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

Northern Rivers newsletter - July 2020

Northern Rivers newsletter - July 2020

Plenty of Fireweed and Red Gum are now in good bloom. Ironbark is showing well in some places, although seems to be a bit slow coming into general bloom.

You may have noticed that there is a good flowering of wattle around at the moment. Unfortunately the wattle on this side of the divide is of no value for bees, the protein is too low, and it doesn't seem to be attractive to bees. On the western side of the range some of the species produce really good pollen that allows us to work autumn/winter honey flows that are pollen deficient. Interestingly for a plant that is often a spectacular flowerer, wattle is wind pollinated.