Native Bee Rescue & Education North QLD

🐝🐝🐝 IMPORTANT INFORMATION 🐝🐝🐝

🐝🐝🐝 FOR APIS BEEKEEPERS 🐝🐝🐝

We ask that all members of Townsville & District Beekeepers Association Inc, community and all of QLD undertake testing in hives and report results to QLD Department of Agriculture & Fisheries via the link in this post.

Note** This is just a precaution and will assist our departments if an incursion is found.

Any queries, please contact myself on 0438033301 or [email protected]

***IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL BEEKEEPERS***

QLD GOVERNMENT - Department of Agriculture & Fisheries

Help protect our Bees - Report your results

Report your results
Use our online form (Bee 123) to report any checks you have made on your hives, even if you do not find any suspect mites.

We use this information to understand the number and health of beehives in Queensland.

This helps us prepare in case varroa mite enters Queensland.

Report your results

For more information call us on 13 25 23 or send an email to [email protected].

How to use the Survey 123 app

Download the ArcGIS Survey123 app from the App Store or Google Play. Please note, you will need to have internet access to access the survey for the first time. Instructions on using the survey while offline are at the bottom.

Select 'Continue without signing in' on the home screen.

Select the QR code reader next to the search panel (you may need to allow the app to use your camera).

Scan the QR code (below).

Complete the questions using the arrows to navigate.

If you want to do the survey offline

After opening the form using internet access, select the "Bee 123" survey from the list of surveys on the Survey123 home screen. To add your address, you can enter the site address/location as your current position or enter the contact address as free text. You will need internet access to submit the form.

QR code

To access the survey on your device, a QR code is also available. Simply open the camera on your device and scan.

**QR CODE via link below**
https://daf.engagementhub.com.au/varroa-mite/news/report-your-results-

**DIRECT ACCESS TO Bee 123: Varroa mite hive check** (PC Access)
https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/e7fb92e833744be7b2b32d25981779bf?portalUrl=https://qportal.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis

🐝🐝🐝 3 WAYS TO CHECK FOR VARROA MITE ⬇️⬇️⬇️
https://www.business.qld.gov.au/industries/farms-fishing-forestry/agriculture/niche-industries/bees-beekeeping/varroa-mite-information/check-hives

I'm very excited to collaborate with Home Hill State High School Agricultural Department and be a part of their exhibit at this year's Burdekin Show. The students will soon have a new addition to their primary industries plot and will have hands on experience and learn about the importance of pollination in our primary industries sector. It's a great pleasure to be a part of something I'm so passionate about.

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Proud to be supporting my good mate's from Wulgurukaba Walkabouts tonight at the deadly choices round Cowboys v Dragons.

I'm absolutely overwhelmed with the community today who not only took the time to drop in and see us, but engaged with the club members, bees and culture. Many also politely waited for an opportunity to chat and learn about native bees. Amongst all that, I called out to come wander over to the stage for a world record waggle dance attempt and to my amazement a swarm of bee-utiful people followed. And we smashed it!! 😊. All this could not have happened without my family, friends and many volunteers. Thank you Townsville City Council for the months of collaboration to make this happen.

Nick, NQ Native Bees & President Townsville & District Beekeepers Association Inc 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

Be Brave. Make Change – National Reconciliation Week 2022

Today and everyday, is a time to build on respectful relationships shared with First Nations and other Australians and celebrate culture and history

Reconciliation Australia Wulgurukaba Walkabouts

Elliot Springs has a new addition to the Wadda Mooli Park 🐝 If you want to learn more about native bees, look out for our free community workshop event coming soon.

Linocut Printmaking Workshop | Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts In connection to this year’s Eco Fiesta on 4 - 5 June, Umbrella invites you to participate in a linocut printmaking workshop with local artist Kerrie Everett Horrocks, which will be focused on pollinators and their importance within our community. Attendees will be guided through the printmaking p...

Another magical day teaching our community about our precious native bees 🐝🐝🐝

A big thank you to Margie and Helene James for your continual support of our community club. Without you both, today could not have happened. Thank you again 😊🐝

Today I presented the preppies at St Benedict's Catholic School, Shaw the latest addition to their native bee hives at the school. 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Happy World Bee Day!

Townsville & District Beekeepers Association Inc Open Day this Saturday

Participate in creating a giant bee with artist Nina Lavarini Dawson golden bee (the hive)

Add your handprint to the mural under way by the Wulgurukaba Walkabouts and Yalga group

Hooray for our Open Day!

Looking forward to showcasing to our community some of our special native bees again.

Did you know that Austroplebeia Australis can vary in colour? This is my latest rescue from Far North QLD and I've never seen such Orange abdomens. Commonly known as orange bum AA, the colours and markings on the abdomen and thorax can depend on location and climate.

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It’s Pollinator Week across Australia and to celebrate this, the Billion Bee Foundation want to update our friends on what we have been doing since our last message. Thank You Billion Bees Supporters for hanging in with us.

As you know, the Billion Bees Foundation is dedicated to the restoration of Australian Bees in our communities and giving nature back the upper hand.
We have many projects in the bee scape. Our current major focus is dedicated to working with Bushfire effected communities in Queensland and New South Wales, to restock their lands with Australian stingless bees. This is for natural bushland restoration, pollination and to help biodiversity in these devastated places.
In the last eight months the Team have been intensely building partnerships with wonderful organisations who are going to work on rolling out the Bushfire Recovery Project. In Queensland and NSW, twenty communities, devastated by the Black Summer fires will be receiving free Stingless Beehives to propagate and education programs about Australian Stingless Bees
The groups and organisations that we are partnering with include
• Aboriginal Land Council’s
• Men’s Shed Movement
• Bangalow Koalas
• Local Government
• Landcare groups
• And many other environmental community groups as well as individuals.

Our research and development team led by Peter Atkins has consulted with Meliponists including Bob the Bee Man, NnBees, Kings Bees, The Stingless Bee Lady, Urban Native Bees and many others, to perfect the engineering of the hives to ensure that they are robust and can withstand harsh bush conditions, including heat and exposure over time.
We are enormously proud of the results, which ensure maximum protection of our precious native bees. If you are interested in finding out more about this program or contributing, please contact [email protected] and one of the team will be in contact.
This project received grant funding from the Australian Government’s investment in bushfire recovery for wildlife and their habitats.

Other news on our Bee Scape
• Our Schools, Education and Corporate programs are going from strength to strength with more schools requesting hives as well as workshops, which we love to do. Feel free to contact us for more information about the education programs.

• Today we received our first Pollinator Week Donation from Anne and James Wyatt from the Blue Mountains to support the work that we do.
Our heartfelt thanks go to Anne and James. Thankyou!
If you would like to donate to the foundation to celebrate Pollinator Week here is the link. www.chuffed.org/project/a-billion-bees-foundation

Coming Soon.
• The Billion Bee Website – will be the place for you to connect with others that are passionate about Australian native bees. You will be able to find educational resources, learn how to propagate stingless bees and ask a lot of questions of a Meliponists (bee experts).
The Billion Bee Foundation Team, sincerely thank everybody, that has been excited enough, to jump on board and support what we are doing to Give Nature Back the Upper Hand.
Please share our news and build the Billion Bees Foundation tribe by letting others know that we can all help.

A big thank you to all those wonderful people who attended my Native Bee Workshop today. Also a huge thanks to Townsville Beekeepers who helped make today a success. Look forward to seeing you at tomorrow's open day to play with more bees!

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Pollination trials on an NQ Macadamia Farm this season. Hoping to see if Native Bees truly assist in higher yield.

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Just look at that honey and pollen glistening in the sun!!! Who can guess the correct species of this exceptional colony?

Front Entrance Friday!!! Tetragonula Mellipes holding strong. Something I have definitely noticed with these dry tropics species is their love of combining wood chips and resins into their entrance.

Nothing makes my day like picking up decorated hives from some very excited kids. Now to transfer some bees and get them back for all to enjoy!