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• Bundaberg - Native Beekeeping 101 Workshops with Ian Driver

  • When
    23 Nov 2024
  • Location
    Bundaberg

  Native Beekeeping 101 Workshops with Ian Driver from A Green Soul Native Bees.

  Workshops 23^rd November 2024 – Bundaberg (location- 20 mins south of Bundaberg) 

  Two workshops

  Morning: 9.00am (duration - 3 hours)

  Afternoon: 1.00pm (duration - 3 hours)

  Presenter is Ian Driver, Past President Australian Native Bee Association and Brisbane based Australian Native Bee Keeper and Owner/Operator of A Green Soul Native Bees.

  Are you interested in keeping native stingless bees for fun, honey production, conservation or pollination? In this workshop learn about some of our most popular and beautiful native bees, and how to attract them into your garden with plants and bee hotels. You will also see inside a native stingless bee hive and get to taste their amazing honey.

  This workshop will cover both our stingless bees and our native solitary bees, and options for keeping them in gardens or even on decks and verandas. 

  • WHAT YOU’LL GET

  • ·      Heaps of cool information on our amazing Australian Native Bees
  • ·      Information on native stingless bees and a look inside a hive 
  • ·      Taste the amazing native stingless bee honey
  • ·      How to build a native solitary bee hotel, or what to look for if buying one
  • ·      A small bee hotel to get you going
  • ·      What plants attract native bees
  • ·      Links to further learning resources

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    WHAT TO BRING

  • ·      Your love of bees!

   

  Registration is required prior to the day

  To ensure your spot or for more information please call 0488526690

  Price Australian Native Bee Assoc Members – $35 per member

  Non Members - $45

  Lucky door prize

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• Rockhampton branch @ Mini Science Fair Capricorn Coast

  • When
    23 Nov 2024
  •  
    08:00 - 14:00
  • Location
    178 Kinka Beach Road, Tanby, Yeppoon 4703 Qld
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• Colony rescue and transfer in East Ballina

  • When
    24 Nov 2024
  •  
    11:00 - 12:30
  • Location
    East Ballina
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  Ian has rescued a hive in an OATH box. The box is in a poor state and he plans to transfer the colony into a new box.

   

  He also makes his own boxes and decorates insulation covers for his hives. 
  

  

  Everyone is welcome to attend to observe and offer support and advice.
  

  Location: East Ballina

  Date: Sunday 24th November 

  Time: 11am

  Please register and we will email you the address details on Saturday the 23rd of November.

  For those who would like to attend from Coffs Harbour, we can arrange car pooling.

  N.B. The event will be cancelled if there is serious wet weather.

  Contact Elaine if you have any further queries by phoning 0421 041 269 or emailing coffs.anba@gmail.com

  We hope to see you there!

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• ANBA Cassowary Coast branch lunch and December meeting

  • When
    24 Nov 2024
  •  
    12:00 - 14:00
  • Location
    King Reef Hotel Kurrimine Beach

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  Cassowary Coast December lunch and meeting

  This will be our last event for this year. We are booked for lunch so please RSVP for numbers.

   Jane will present: Is it a bee? (Or a wasp or a fly??)

  Date: Sunday November 24

  Time: 12 to 2pm

  Location: King Reef Hotel Kurrimine Beach

  RSVP essential: busylizzy.lang@gmail.com

  
  

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• Mid North Coast - Christmas picnic

  • When
    1 Dec 2024
  •  
    12:00
  • Location
    Bonny Hills

  Next month is our annual “Bee Part Of It” Christmas picnic EVERYONE IS WELCOME to join us for our annual Christmas BBQ and bee hotel workshop. Bring the whole family, neighbours and especially children who will have fun making their very own bee-hotel. All materials for the hotels will be supplied for just $10 each hotel, to take home for their garden or to give as a Christmas gift.

  WHERE: Bartlett Reserve BBQ, Jordan Ave. Bonny Hills

  WHEN: Sunday 1st December 2024, 12 noon

  PLEASE BRING: This is a picnic afternoon so please bring along a plate to share, chairs, cups, cutlery, drinks and your own meat if you wish to BBQ.

  There will also be bee hotels for sale, Tim Heard’s Australian Native Bee Book - $40, native bee 2025 calendars - $25, as well as bee trinkets. All potential Christmas gifts for those hard to buy for people. Cash only please.

  For any further info and to RSVP (by November 15th) please email Jim Marchment 

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• Rockhampton branch December meeting

  • When
    7 Dec 2024
  •  
    09:00 - 11:00
  • Location
    TBA

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  All welcome at our last informal gathering for 2024. Weather permitting we are hoping to share some practical skills such as a hive transfer or split.

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