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