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BooksThe Australian Native Bee Book: Keeping Stingless Bee Hives For Pets, Pollination and Sugarbag Honey by Dr Tim Heard
The Australian Native Bee Book:
Keeping stingless bees and hives for pets, pollination and sugarbag honey
By Tim Heard
Keeping native stingless bees is a hot topic in Australia for commercial, environmental and recreational reasons.
You can do something about the decline of pollinators by conserving native bees.
In this book you’ll find the complete guide to native stingless bees, written by an expert who has spent his lifetime intimately engaged with these unique creatures.
Whether you keep a hive or two in your suburban garden, or want to use multiple hives on a commercial farm, this friendly guide has you covered.
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BooksKeeping Australian Native Stingless Bees by Greg Coonan
Keeping Australian Native Stingless Bees by Greg Coonan
Native stingless bees are one of nature’s most wonderful gifts. Our passion is native beekeeping, and we enjoy making it easy for others to gain the knowledge and confidence to look after and be enriched by these fabulous little creatures. This is the sole purpose for preparing this guide.Based on my own years of experience and those of my friends I have prepared this simple guide for first time hive owners, and for those who want to progress into native beekeeping.Our methods are based around those so rigorously researched, tested and wonderfully presented by Tim Heard in his book ‘The Australian Native Bee Book’. This easy to read book contains a wealth of knowledge, and should be studied by anyone wishing to progress from owning a hive to native beekeeping, undertaking such practices as honey harvesting and hive propagation. The more you read and understand about the biology of native bees and in particular native stingless bees, the better prepared you will be to become a native beekeeper. As with any profession or trade, once you become proficient, you make small adjustments to the practices and procedures to what works consistently well for you, while maintaining the core principles – it can be the same for native beekeeping.(0 reviews) -
BooksLovely – A Story About A Stingless Bee By Melissa Ballantyne
Lovely – A Story About A Stingless Bee
Children’s Book
Written by Melissa Ballantyne
Illustrated by Deanna Bresnehan
This is a story about a little bee named Lovely. Lovely is a stingless bee. Sometimes she is called Bush bee or Sugarbag bee. Follow the journey of Lovely the stingless bee and discover the wonders and workings of our Australian native bees.
Learn about her and her friends in their hive, their life cycle, and how to look after bees and their habitats.
For the little minds of our future bee loving friends, bursting and buzzing with excitement and curiosity.
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BooksThe Honey of Australian Native Stingless Bees By Dean Haley
The Honey of Australian Native Stingless Bees By Dean Haley
This book is for anyone interested in the honey of Australian native stingless bees. This book grew organically as a small group of stingless beekeepers and scientists set out to create a food standard for our native bee honey.
Table of contents.
- Overview
- Honey in Indigenous Australia
- Native honey and bees in early Australian newspapers
- Meet the bees
- What makes our honey different?
- Harvesting honey
- Australian Federal & State rules
- Future industry needs
- Beekeeper insights
- Flowers for honey
- Postcards from the field
- Around the world Bibliography
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BooksAustralian Stingless Bees A Guide to Sugarbag Beekeeping John Klumpp
Australian Stingless Bees : A guide to Sugarbag Beekeeping
by John Klumpp
Description
Australian Stingless Bees: a guide to Sugarbag beekeeping by John Klumpp is a 120 page book packed with over 200 photos and illustrations. People tell us that it is easy to read, whimsical, engaging, amusing, and is crammed with useful information.
Of particular interest is a comprehensive description of Klumppy’s Eduction (or budding) method for propagating hives, which requires minimal intervention in the colony, and offers a way to reduce the risk of exposing your colony to parasites and diseases, especially for hobbyists.
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BooksA Guide to Native Bees of Australia by Terry Houston
A Guide to Native Bees of Australia by Terry Houston | Australian Hive Hotel
A Guide to Native Bees of Australia provides a detailed introduction to the estimated 2000 species of Australian bees. Illustrated with stunning photographs, it describes the form and function of bees, their life-cycle stages, nest architecture, sociality and relationships with plants.
It also contains systematic accounts of the five families and 58 genera of Australian bees. Photomicrographs of morphological characters and identification keys allow identification of bees to genus level. Natural history enthusiasts, professional and amateur entomologists and beekeepers will find this an essential guide.
Beloved Bees – Australian Native Stingless Bees
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BooksThe Sugarbag by Nola Turner-Jensen & Illustrated by Dub Leffler
The Sugarbag by Nola Turner-Jensen
An adventure story of two young brothers, Jimmy and Max, who are on their way to visit their grandfather. On the way, they encounter a tiny native bee and hope it will lead them to some delicious sugarbag. ‘Sugarbag is a favourite treat for Aboriginal people. We call it ngarruu. When Grandfather was a little boy, he went hunting for ngarruu with his father,’ Jimmy explained proudly. Sugarbag is the European word for the honey produced by the stingless bee.The boys go racing through the bush in pursuit of the bee hoping it will lead them to its hive.
Nola Turner-JensenIllustrated by Dub Leffler(0 reviews) -
BooksNative Bees of Australia: A Photographic Exploration by James Dorey
James Dorey is undertaking a PhD on the evolution, taxonomy and ecology of Australian native bees at Flinders University, Adelaide. His stunning macro photographs have been published in books and magazines, and have been honoured in national and international photography competitions. He is amazed at the hidden diversity of bees.Discover the extraordinary diversity of Australia’s native beesEach page features stunning macro photographs of bees from around AustraliaIncludes fascinating contributions from Australia’s leading bee researchers on topics such as pollination, social behaviour, threats, and how to find bees and attract them to your garden(0 reviews)
