RESOURCES AND PICTURE GALLERY

Keeping Bees In South Australia
All persons keeping bees in South Australia
are required by law to be registered.
(NB -  The law applies even if you are only keeping one hive )
Code of Conduct document is available from PIRSA which outlines all requirements for keeping bees in South Australia.
http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/biosecuritysa/animalhealth/disease_control/bees/apiaries6
Apiary Registration Form 2013/2014  (use search engine on the PIRSA website.)  www.pir.sa.gov.au
http://www.pir.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/127031/Apiary_Registration_Form_2013-2014.pdf

For further information contact:
The Department of Primary Industry and Resources
Pirsa Animal Health Apiary Unit
33 Flemington St.
Glenside-SA
(08) 82077900
(08) 82077902
 
Notifiable Bee - Disease/ Agents
Acariasis tracheal mite (Acarapsis woodi)
American foulbrood (Paenibacillus larvae)
European foulbrood (Melissococcus pluten)
Small hive beetle (Aethina tumida)
Tropilaelaps mite (Tropilaelaps clareae)
Varroasis (Varroa destructor)
Varroasis (Varroa jacobsoni) 
 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

AHBIC 
Australian Honey Bee Industry Council 
www.honeybee.org.au 
( click on education to view downloadable work books for national beekeeping competencies ) 17 fee downloadable pdf files


National best management practice for beekeeping in the australian environment
http://www.honeybee.org.au/pdf/NBPFBIAE.pdf


RIRDC 
Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation  
 www.rirdc.gov.au       Publications/ Honeybee = multiple publications with a broad topic base relevant to beekeepers



 The Bee Friendly Book

https://rirdc.infoservices.com.au/items/12-014
"Bee Friendly" - is the new publication authored by Mark Leech  - very useful tool for both commercial and recreational beekeepers
published January 2013 - available online  free download or able to be purchased in hard copy

" EUCALYPTUS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA " - 1997
Dean Nicolle - ISBN 0 646 32743 7     next edition to be released in 2013


Behind The News = btn ( back yard bees - childrens program)
We had a great time with the btn crew in 2010 fliming " Backyard Bees" Marty and Lachlan open a hive so you can see how it works
http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s2968817.htm


Complete metamorphis - life cycle of a bee video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSk_ev1eZec


Canadian agricultural museum virtual exhibit for children
http://www.agriculture.technomuses.ca/english/bees/


South Australian Business Supporting Beekeepers

CRAFTWORK ENGINEERING
specialising in food industry equipment design and manufacture
Rob Webb 0408897448

Honey/ Section Honey Comb
The language used to describe Honey and Honey Section Comb is the same as wine and perfume. Honey  has a combination of aroma and flavours all of its own.

Top note:	The taste of  the initial burst of flavour as the liquid gold first connects with your taste buds – honey can vary from crisp and sharp to extremely mellow.
Mid note:	That rounded taste as the honey mingles with saliva and your taste buds trigger the brain to search for recognition of the floral source of the honey and words to describe the flavor comparison.
Base note:

The lingering taste sensation after the ingestion of the honey

South Australia produces some of Australia’s premium honey and is well known particularly for its Blue Gum, Pink Gum, Cup Gum, Box and Mallee varieties.

Honey flavours will vary from season to season depending on floral nectar yielding cycles, climate and regions from which the floral sources are accessed. This includes native flora, fruit and exotic plants as well as domestic and commercial crop sources.

Just as South Australia is known by its wine growing regions it is also becoming increasingly recognised for its honey producing regions amongst honey consumers internationally.

Picture Gallery   
   

BeeSkills 2013 education session saturday April 27th LONSDALE - Sth Aust Topics included :- Bee nutrition / Queens/ Neuc management / Wintering/ Floral sources / Pollenation Beekeepers from:-  Southern Flinders Ranges, Riverland, Barossa Valley , Adelaide Hills , Fleurieu Peninsula  , Adelaide Metro regions =  CBD City/ Northern / Southern ,/ East ern / Western suburbs.	BeeSkills 2013 education session Sunday April 28th LONSDALE - Sth Aust
Painting top hive super coat                                                    Assembling Frames  YOUNG SA BEEKEEPER PICTURE STORY South Australia - Upper South East                                                                             Zac's Beekeeper picture story shows that young beekeepers can learn and demonstrate  the beekeeping craft from an early age. Including all facets of beekeeping - Hive / frame assembly and refurbishment, Inspecting brood , Raising a neuc, Undertaking a swapout , Supering, Migraiting a secure hive at night, Extracting, processing & marketing honey .   Congratulations  Zac on your care of bees and extracting your honey Photographs used with permission	Neuc hive swapout into  single brood box
Migraiting " secure " Hives at night                                                    Brood Box inspection	Inspecting Brood                                       Honey Extracting                 Packing Honey
Autumn Neuc raising site 2013                  Strong Bees hanging out at at Midnight Photographed with phone and torch	Flora = Baxteri , Fasciculosa, Leucoxylon,  Cosmophylla , - March 2013 Dry conditions have influenced the yeild  cycles of the above species to align in some parts of the species rangelands. Not a common occurance. Excellent conditions for breeding hives & raising neucs on mixed pollen including gorse
EUC Incrassata - Ridge Fruited Mallee           Honey Stall visitors inspecting hive.	Autumn neucs and breeder hives on Stringy Bark "Baxteri"   Fleurieu Peninsula -SA - 2013
Market " RENDEZVOUS" - Bristol Court LONSDALE
Port Pirie Producers market - Laura Gardens Bees Honey Stall	Yielding = Eu Diversifolia " Coastal /Stoney Mallee"  upper south east - May 2012
Contented sheep, cows and bees sharing the same paddock - Southern Flinders	Getting ready to pull peppermint honey
Peppermint yeilding Southern Flinders -April/May 2012	Working Hives on peppermint
Visitors to the bee exhibit at the Laura Folk Fair 2012	Lorraine @ the Laura Garden Bees Honey stall - Laura Folk Fair 2012
Urrbrae Bee Club  2012 Outside of the bee shed  - parents and supporters at the Prac day	Spot The Queen
Urrbrae High School Bee Prac	Urrbrae Bee Club  Prac Day - at the bee shed
Changing over loaders	Mallee in the Murraylands  SA - Autumn 2012
Autumn Mist - Pink Gum site	Morning mist rolls in - South East SA -autumn 2012
Cows passing by the apiary	Pink Gum Site South East