The Amateur Beekeeper - Oct/Nov2016
In this issue:
- Spring/summer essentials: hive management tips
- Collecting swarms: what to check
- Best smoker fuel
- Amateur registration: need for change
- Hive rescue. Bees in a couch
- What happens at Steritech
- Grand theft Manuka
- Leptospermum Project + honey analysis
- Bee Biosecurity Officer – An update from around the state
- Sting of the Wild, plus tell us your most painful story
- Q&A Why the dead bees in the backyard
- Letter to the editor – Queen Excluders
- How bees make honey, explained
- Bees in the news – media round up
- Inveterate Inventor tackles filler frames
- Bega meeting agenda – fees and more
- Field days in Tamworth and at Tocal
- Club contacts
- Grants: Has your club applied yet?
The Amateur Beekeeper - Aug/Sept 2016
In this edition:
- ABA Campaign on Biosecurity: Why we need new amateur beekeeper registration rules, and how you can add your voice
- Latest on QLD’s Varroa incursion
- Sterilising equipment: Gamma irradiation
- Honey dumping petitions
- Bee adventures: A first person account
- Book Review: Australian Beekeeping Manual
- Pros and cons of queen excluders
- Honey Month round up and ideas
- Report of Mudgee ABA council meeting
- Quiz: Test your AFB knowledge
- Bees in the news
- Inveterate Inventor: Perfect hive mats
- Instructions for making external feeders
- News of field days at Tocal College and Pittwater
- ABA Contacts