The Australian Native Bee Book

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. Whether you keep a bee hive or two in your backyard garden, or want to use multiple hives on a commercial farm, this friendly guide has you covered.

Book includes:

• Bee biology, behaviour, nesting, social life and foraging
• How to build your own native bee hive
• How to transfer a bee colony to a hive box and propagate hives
• All about sugarbag honey, included how to extract it from hives
• Managing your hive
• Indentifying and dealing with pests
• Using stingless bees for pollination - from small gardens to commercial crops
• A complete list of Australia's stingless bee species, how to identify them, their characteristics, where they occur, and recommended hives
• A readable summary of the latest research on native bees

Written by Tim Heard. Paperback. 245 pages. Published 2016. Dimensions: 19cm x 25cm x 1.5cm

Find also here the Biome Bee House to provide native solitary bees with a home to raise their young. This bee house is not for stingless bees that live in hives and produce honey.