Open Mon-Fri 8:00am to 4:30pm, Sat 8:00am to 11:30am, Closed all long weekends and Public Holidays
Open Mon-Fri 8:00am to 4:30pm, Sat 8:00am to 11:30am, Closed all long weekends and Public Holidays
Books about Beekeeping in Australia including Guides published by the Department of Primary Industries, Manuals for both amateur and professional beekeepers and Cooking with Honey
Written by Peter Warhurst & Roger Goebel - this is the authoritative text on beekeeping in Australia. With clear diagrams, pictures and explanations this text is recognized as the bible for both amateur and professional beekeepers. On par with the best in the world.
Third Edition
The Australian Beekeeping Manual
Is aimed at both the novice and experienced beekeeper in Australia and explains in detail the steps required to manage colonies of bees.
The Australian native bee book: keeping stingless bee hives for pets, pollination and sugarbag honey.
Dean’s book, The Honey of Australian Native Stingless Bees is a book about native stingless bees with an emphasis on honey. It is beautifully illustrated and visually pleasing.
While once little known and shrouded in mystery, our native 'sugarbag' bees have now become very popular.
There are thousands of hives sold each year to schools, families, orchards and farms. This book provides insights for utilising this wealth of bees to extract their unique and amazing honey.
This book is not just about the bees, its also a celebration of the people who love them. It offers a glimpse of Aboriginal connectedness, and early Australian colonist history. It cover’s food safety laws in Australia, and stingless bee innovations in other countries.
Journey into the heart of the hive and meet the incredible queen bee! In QueenSpotting, experienced beekeeper and professional “swarm catcher” Hilary Kearney challenges readers to “spot the queen” with 48 fold-out visual puzzles — vivid up-close photos of the queen hidden among her many subjects.
QueenSpotting celebrates the unique, fascinating life of the queen bee chronicles of royal hive happenings such as The Virgin Death Match, The Nuptual Flight — when the queen mates with a cloud of male drones high in the air — and the dramatic Exodus of the Swarm from the hive. Readers will thrill at Kearney’s adventures in capturing these swarms from the strange places they settle, including a Jet Ski, a couch, a speed boat, and an owl’s nesting box. Fascinating, fun, and instructive, backyard beekeepers and nature lovers alike will find reason to return to the pages again and again.
KEY POINTS
Beekeepers need to know the floral resources around them, and the nutritional value of those resources to bees, to keep their bee colonies healthy. This publication focuses on the value of plants to nectarivores, and honey bees in particular. The result of over 30 years of research, it distills both scientific knowledge and the opinions of hundreds of beekeepers into a reference work that will be the cornerstone of floral understanding in apiculture for years to come.
This book features a hardcover with 680 colour pages.
A Practical Guide to beekeeping by Department of Primary Industries.
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A basic guide to some of the skills and practices of bee production. Easy to follow for those new to bee keeping, this book contains step-by-step instructions, diagrams and full-colour pictures. Includes how to maintain hives, use a bee smoker, catch a swarm, remove and extract honey, health and pests in the hive, buying equipment, and working safely with bees.
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Book by NSW Department of Primary Industries. It has lots of coloured photos covering: The Honey Bee, Colony Size, Nutrition, Effects of Seasons and Location, Disease and Disorder, Strategies to Prevent Disease, Diseases of Brood, Diseases of Adult Bees, Hive Pests, Exotic Pests, Honey Bees and the Law.
Ag Guide - A Practical Handbook
Healthy Bees:
Pests and diseases can attack specific stages in the lifecycle of the honey bee and they can also attack specific castes. This publication covers the management of pests, diseases and other disorders of the honey bee.
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This NSW DPI Queen Bee Breeding Book covers all the requirements to producing your own Queens.Topics cover cell raising, grafting, nutrition, pests and diseases, reproductive biology, genetics, mating apiaries, queen banking, controlled mating, packaging.
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This book informs beekeepers of best practices to honey extraction. It also informs beekeepers of the threats to honey quality which can occur through poor handling skills or poor design of facilities. It includes references to legislation about food production..
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Pollination using honey bees.
It's no secret that both bees and plants work together in pollination. This book informs the beekeeper about preparing and maintaining bees so that they are fit for the pollination task and informs the grower about creating an environment for best results.
Nature's Gifts
Answers to Questions About Honey, Pollen and All Things Bees
By Athol Craig, Skaidra Craig
This registration pack is designed for new beekeepers and is included when you purchase our starter kits. However, you can also download these forms from the 'Instructions' and 'Information' tabs on the top of our website.
It includes:
*QLD Registration forms
*Queen Breeders list
*Beekeeping Clubs for QLD
*Hive assembly instructions
Unit 4B / 10 Jijaws St.
Sumner Park, Qld 4074
Tel : 07 3376 5404
info@qbs.net.au
Mon - Fri : 8am - 4:30pm
Saturday : 8am - 11:30am
Closed all long weekends
Closed Public Holidays