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Beekeeping Field Day – 20th Feb 2016
Adrian Iodice will be one of the presenters at the Beekeepers Association of the ACT feild day [link to ACT site – to page for this event if possible] on the 20th of Feb 2016…
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The Swarm Adrian Caught
Another swarm today!! This one is a secondary swarm which is why it’s a bit smaller than usual. I relocated these girls to a beautiful Kenyan top bar hive to live out their lives.
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Another Kenyan Hive was Born Last Sunday!!
John and Sharon Champagne from Brogo Permaculture Gardens have got them selves a ‘Let it Bee’ hive. A small group of bee freaks spent about an hour positioning and readying the hive on Sunday…
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Bee Friendly by Mark Leech
I have recently purchased a book called: Bee Friendly. A planting guide for European honey bees and Australian pollinators. By Mark Leech.
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How ‘Neonics’ Impact Bees and Your Garden
Albert Einstein once made a statement that was simple but carried a punch, “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.”
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Bee Keeping Course at the Crossing
Here are some pics of another enthusiastic bunch of students from the weekend course at ‘The Crossing’ teaching natural, ethical beekeeping using Kenyan Top Bar Hives.
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Bee Friendly Planting
Things are pretty tough for bees at the moment. Extreme heat at crucial flowering times last summer reduced the blossoms available for bees, and this combined with bush fires and drought in Australia’s southeast have resulted in 30% fewer bees in these regions […]
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Global Initiative for Honey Bee Health
CSIRO calls on researchers worldwide to join forces to save honey bees
Honey bees are essential for the pollination of about one third of the food we eat […]
A Log Bee Hive Built by Adrian Iodice
A log hive Adrian Iodice built a couple of years ago! The honey is stored at the back of the hive away from the entrance so all I do is open the back door and cut out some delicious raw honeycomb […]
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Bee Love!
These people obviously LOVE their Bees!! Its quite amazing really that some people have so much fear around bees and on the other hand some have none! I would like to try this some day, would you?
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