Amateur Beekeepers Australia

In this Issue:

• From the Editor

• BOTULISM & BABIES & HONEY – fact or fallacy

• Electrical safety risk with imported electrical gear

• Packing Down Colonies for Winter

• Why can’t I treat my bees for Varroa?

• ABA Members’ Field Day

In this issue:

• Editor’s letter

• AGM details

• Resources

• Varroa: Play your part in the fight

• Alcohol washing: do you know all these tips?

• Teaching kids about bees

• How varroa resilience officers can help you

• ABA AGM: Member rights at risk?

• Extracting honey: the correct way

• Honey labels explained

• How to win a honey competition

• 200 years of bees in Australia

• Rookie mistakes: what’s yours?

• ABA executive

• SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT PART 4 - Breed Your Own Queen Bees

  • Mating nucs

  • Handling cells

  • Bee vision explained

  • Timetable

  • Marketing 101

  • Shipping

  • Biosecurity

In this issue:

• President’s letter

• Varroa contacts

• AGM details

• Beating the enemy: Varroa news

• Renewals: behind the scenes

• Coin countdown.

• Braula, the other new pest.

• Queen breeders’ survey

• SPECIAL AFB PROJECT 100 free honey tests

• NEW The16-week rule explained

• Alcohol wash: Do it right. Do it now

• Varroa 101: Know the basics

• A cautionary tale about varroa

• Club apiaries: what works (and what doesn’t work so well)

• Wild bees: image of the year

• Shop online. Support the ABA

• ABA executive

• SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT PART 3 Breed Your Own Queen Bees

  • Contents

  • Key facts. The cell builder. Cloake boards

  • Queen production

  • The schedule

  • How to graft

  • Summary

• President’s letter

• Pick of the best online information about varroa

• Renewals and benefits

• Offer: Honeybee coin.

• Honey analysis research

• VARROA: 21 QUESTIONS What beekeepers want to know

• Mite tests explained

• How to do an alcohol wash

• DIY Alcohol washers

• Into the mind of a bee

• Swarm control

• SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT PART 2 Breed Your Own Queen Bee

  • Contents

  • Anatomy. Genetics.

  • Drones and Workers

  • DCAs explained

  • Queen bee anatomy

  • Races. Breeder queens

  • Choices, Decisions, Actions

  • Glossary

• ABA executive

In this issue:

• President’s letter

• ABA AGM details

• Name change: Results of our two recent member surveys

• Name change: the proposal, plus FAQs answered

• How to remedy a hive with laying workers

• Slum gum

• Safety warning for asbestos in bee smokers

• Safest and best ways to launder your bee suit

• ABA shop. Visit our online shop for great value beekeeping essentials

• Toad at the hive: be a snitch

• Native bees: getting ready for an exciting future

• Exhibiting honey and apiary products: secrets to success

• Learn from home: it’s never been easier or more entertaining

• Executive committee: contact us

In this issue:

• President’s letter

• EXTRA MEMBERSHIP BENEFIT: Personal accident insurance

• Insurance FAQs and links

• Buzzworthy trivia quiz

• Wax bloom explained, plus tips for rendering wax

• How to stop your bees becoming a nuisance to others

• Bees and blooms: how foragers know to look for flowers

• Bee gold: science is unlocking the benefits bees get from honey

• Club grants: how different beekeeping groups are using ABA grants

• Spotlight on . . . Hastings Valley

• Two simple recipes with special honey flavour

• Honey hacks: cooking tips and a summer cocktail

• Learn from home.

• Contact us

In this issue:

• President’s letter

  • AFB checks

  • Swarm collecting

• Better beekeeping in a pandemic - Seven things to consider

• Are you on the ABA Swarm System? Tips for getting calls

• Honey Bee vision. How Apis mellifera sees the world

• AFB Awareness: Inspect your hives in October

• What to do if you think it’s AFB - Decision tree

• Tricky questions about AFB: we investigate your queries

• Club news: Junior field day; club upgrades planned

• The other honey makers

• The many benefits of thorough brood inspections

• Learn from home

• Contact us

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

In this issue:

• President’s Letter - Drought and bushfires

• Welcoming new clubs

• Membership

  • 2020/21 fees explained

• Events

  • An album of Field Day photos

• Biosecurity

  • Honey analysis: calling for citizen scientists

• Events

  • Announcing 2020 Festival of Bees

• Insurance

  • Why lip balm is not covered

• Contests

  • Interclub Competition: how your club can compete

  • Member contests. Four to enter

• Survey

  • National honey bee check

• Smokers vs total fire bans

• Beekeeping tips

  • How to get show-quality honey

• Inveterate inventor

  • Weighing buckets of honey

• ABA Executive Team

In this issue:

• President’s Letter: Spring surprise

• Tips: Four equipment checks to do now

• Adventures in swarm collecting

• Events

  • ABA Field Day: November 10: Full programme. How to get tickets

• Biosecurity

  • AFB month.

  • Stopping robber bees

• ABA support

  • Club forum and training day

• Brush up your queen spotting

• Giving new colonies a boost

• Australian Pollinator week

• Organisation: The ABA/club structure explained

• Native bees in the spotlight

• Beekeepers’ Field Day at Tocal: Programme. Honey Contest

• Bee forage: Growing grevilleas for bees

• ABA executive team for 2019

• Australian Native Bee Conference

In this issue:

• 2019 BEEKEEPING WEEKEND

  • The Art and Science of Beekeeping

  • Details of this year’s special bee celebration.

  • Get your tickets!

• Programme and Planner

  • Speakers and topics

• News and More

  • Stamps go native.

  • Label law.

  • Brush up your skills.

  • Quiz yourself

• Industry

  • Manuka gets a seal of approval

• Club News

  • Council grant for young club

• President’s Letter

  • A year in review

• Regulations

  • Council rules for beekeepers and honey sellers

• Membership

  • Welcome packs for new sign-ups

• Show rules

  • Pfund it! How honey is graded

• Trees for Bees

  • Swamp Mahogany

• Advice

  • Before you build a bee empire . . .

• Contacts

• Inveterate inventor

  • Bottling without mess or stress

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