Great news!!!! On Thursday October 2nd Tim Heard is coming to the wide bay area to do a full one day workshop on stingless bees. seats are limited and we are offering advanced bookings for likers of this page. tickets are $40 each which includes morning tea. if you are interested please message us to be put on the list. places fill fast!! workshop will be held at Goodwood, 20 mins south of Bundaberg a quick blurb on Tim and the workshop. Are you interested in keeping native stingless bees for fun, honey production, conservation or pollination? Are you ready to become a beekeeper? In this workshop, entomologist Dr Tim Heard will teach you the basics on how to become one. He will entertain and educate you at the same time. This workshop alternates between slide presentations and a practical session to build a strong foundation of knowledge and experience. His stunning slide presentation will cover the topics of bee nesting biology, bee foraging biology, diversity of wild bees, importance of bees in natural systems, traditional stingless beekeeping around the world, modern stingless beekeeping in Australia, using stingless bees for pollination of gardens and farms, sugarbag honey and its properties, rescuing bees threatened in the wild, and more. In the practical sessions, we will open hives and observe the amazing structures within. We wil learn how to move a colony from a log into a hive. We will divide the hive into two halves showing the process of colony propagation. About the presenter Dr Tim Heard is an entomologist, ex-CSIRO research scientist, and also a long term stingless bee keeper and promoter of native bees. He transferred his first hive from a cut down tree into a wooden box in 1985. Tim now keeps more than 300 hives of three species around south east Queensland, obtained by rescuing threatened wild hives and dividing existing hives. Tim completed his university studies on using these bees for crop pollination. He has developed new hive designs that allow for easy propagation and sustainable extraction of honey, without harming the colony. He has been presenting workshops and seminars for many years on bees in general and keeping stingless bees in particular.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 03:07:47 +0000
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