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In this issue...
- Welcome to the ABA in 2017: membership trends, resolving online payment problems
- Doug Somerville writes on: The essentials of dealing with pests and diseases
- Swarm Collector: It’s time to register on the new online system
- ABA Club competition: get competitive with honey, wax, photos, cakes and much more
- Hive hints Six ways to be a perfect beekeeper
- Small Hive Beetle: Research on the nose
- SHB update Plus test-and-tag your electrics
- Natural beekeeping. The movement is gaining momentum around the world. Here’s how to find out more
- News: ABA meets DPI on biosecurity concerns
- Snippets from our history. Plus help needed to gather information
- Easter Show: Your chance to volunteer at Honeyland
- March Council Meeting: where, when and what’s to be discussed
- New club update. Plus an invitation for travellers
- Bees in the news. Scientists uncover yet more ways that bees set a stellar example.
- Inveterate Inventor cuts 10-frame boxes down to size
- AGM in Ballina. May 21
- ABA Tech Grants
- Club contacts
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?
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
