Native Bee Rescue & Education Sunshine Coast

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Native Bee Rescue & Education Sunshine Coast

We make & supply native bee boxes. Provide a rescue service also rehousing into boxes from logs or un Ring Dean at anytime for rescues. 0403602506

05/09/2024

Come and see us at the Laidley Garden Expo @ Laidley recreation reserve. It’s on for 2 days. Friday & Saturday. I will be speaking in the big marquee at 12.15 Friday.

01/09/2024

My boxes are constructed to mimic what the bees use in nature. 90% of log hives have a thickness of at least 50mm. White cypress is used as its termite resistance & the insulation qualities.
DO NOT use extra insulation like styrofoam on my boxes. These act like a fridge and keep the box cold during winter. The sun must warm the box during winter mornings so they can get to flying temp to forage. During summer these covers keep the heat in and can result in hives overheating.
NO EXTRA insulation is required.
The boxes are made for the bees welfare & also to look nice in your gardens. Hives in these boxes are located In Stanthorpe QLD & all the way down to the lower south coast of NSW and cope with temps from minus 3 to 45 with no issues or heat stress.

24/08/2024

Back into box Construction this week. Came home from our roadshow with none left. Took 30 with us.
4 already sold & 1 on order for next weekend

21/08/2024

We will be at the Laidley spring garden fair this year
Please note the new location of the show this year due to storm damage of the old venue

17/08/2024

An excellent finish to our 2024 Native Bee Roadshow at Traveller's Rest 1770! Many thanks to Mike and Michi for hosting us, and for providing such a beautiful bush tucker morning tea! You have created a beautiful relaxing retreat! We look forward to visiting again in the future to see your continuing improvements! Here are some pics of today's AA hive! The children who attended were thrilled with the whole experience!

15/08/2024

We are having a rest day today at Traveller's Rest 1770
Looking forward to seeing all you passionate native bee enthusiasts for Saturdays workshop.

We have just wrapped up this morning’s workshop at Tondoon Botanic Gardens & am now on our way to Travellers Rest 1770 camp ground for our last workshop before heading home.
Still a few spots left.

15/08/2024

A great workshop today with some very bitey TH bees. Thanks to Tondoon Botanic Gardens for hosting us. While the group was small, they were very passionate and the interactions were very positive! We are now at Traveller's Rest 1770, having a rest before our final workshop here for our 2024 Roadshow on Saturday!

15/08/2024

We have just wrapped up this morning’s workshop at Tondoon Botanic Gardens & am now on our way to Travellers Rest 1770 camp ground for our last workshop before heading home.
Still a few spots left.

14/08/2024

We are at the Gladstone Showgrounds for the night ready for our next Native Bee Workshop at Tondoon Botanic Gardens tomorrow morning, starting at 9.30
Look for the Native Bee Buzz

13/08/2024

Well, Roadshow Demonstration 5, hosted by Capricorn Coast Landcare Group Inc was a wet one! 🌨🌩🌬☔️☂️A wee drop of rain didn't stop 24 passionate people attending. Everyone got to know each other well, all squished in together under the gazebo! We opened an AA log, and participants vacuumed up every single bee. We have a very healthy young queen has been sighted in the hive 😍 We cannot tell you how grateful we are to everyone for 'weathering' the rain to take part. A very special thanks to Sara for providing a lovely morning tea. Here are some pics from today!

13/08/2024

Some of the amazing feedback we have been receiving on our native bee roadshow.

10/08/2024

What a massive day today was! Many thanks to Pioneer Catchment & Landcare Group Inc. for hosting this workshop. Donna was a fabulous guide throughout the workshop. Our appreciation also to Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens for offering such a fabulous venue! And we would also like to thank the wonderful attendees who made it a great day! My final comment is: All hail the Queen Bee 🐝 Pics below.

09/08/2024

What a great turnout today for our 3rd Roadshow 2024 event.
Thanks so much to Sarina Landcare Catchment Management Assoc. Saskia and her team were just amazing hosts, and the attendees were a fabulous group. Thank you so much for having us. Today we added a honey super to the TC hive we set up 5 years ago. Then we transferred a TH hive from a log into a box, with many hands helping to vacuum bees 🐝 We all really appreciated the beautiful morning tea provided by the Landcare team. Before we finished up, we rehoused bees from a small old box that was living in the nursery into a new box! What a day! Pics are below.

07/08/2024

The females (4 blue bands) are visiting the flowers. If you had slow motion you would see her head banging the flower at a thousand miles an hour.
The male (5 blue bands) is seen holding onto a stem with its mandibles. This is how the males roost of a night & you will see many boys on the same stem at nightfall
Blue banded bees are one of the buzz pollinators that tomatoes,capsicums & egg plants all require for pollination.

07/08/2024

Many thanks to Keith at Lower Burdekin Landcare Association Inc for hosting us! A great turn out for today's workshop. Thank you to everyone who attended. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. A special mention to Barry for bring your bees to be reboxed. Please enjoy the pics from today 🐝🐝

05/08/2024

Had the privilege of being interviewed this afternoon by Adam @ ABC radio North QLD about our Native bee Roadshow. We will be in Ayr Wednesday then back to Sarina Friday & Mackay Saturday.

04/08/2024

Join us for a workshop on native bee care! Learn hive transfers and more. Book now for an unforgettable experience!

03/08/2024

A couple of photos from today’s native bee workshop for Whitsunday Landcare. First is the brood still incased in the involucrum (protective covering of the brood)
Second is one of the bee vacuum’s full of vacuumed bees to be put into the new hive.
Third is a size comparison of the brood once I had surgically removed it from the damaged log.
We will be holding a workshop in Ayr this Wednesday

26/07/2024

New digital lock arrived today. To replace the passengers door lock that only the dead lock now works. Was a real pain to lock when we stop for the night or go out when on the road. 2 remote fobs as well. So easy & well worth the $ and the bonus is it’s an Australian business. Usually I have to get parts from America

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09/07/2024

Very interesting

08/07/2024

Another pack dressed and stacked. 160 so far. 1 more pack of 80 to go.

30/06/2024

The new tungsten spiral cutter head is a game changer.
Put the first pack of 80 lengths though the thicknesser for the first pass today since replacing the cutter head. No earmuff’s needed. It’s so quiet & cuts beautifully.

14/06/2024

All set up for the Esk Garden Fair! Come and see us! It's a beautiful sunny day 😎 😀

11/06/2024

One for the kids. Make your own solitary native bee hotel to take home.

Helen from Brymac Native Bees will share her knowledge of native bees with you once again!

You will get to decorate and make your own native bee hotel ready to take home and welcome new guests to your garden.

Tuesday 2nd July
11:00am - 12:00pm
Cost per child $15.00 (includes free kids meal and drink)
All materials will be provided.

Prepurchase your ticket here -> https://www.clubglasshouse.com.au/product/Native-Bee-Hotel-Workshop

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01/06/2024

30 boxes. Wrapped and stacked & another 9 protective roofs ready to paint. As per usual it started raining 🙄

31/05/2024

New rescue just opened in its new location. See the bees fanning in the entry. They are fanning to bring in warm air after a cold night.

29/05/2024

Branding time.

24/05/2024

Welcome to our new website.

We would love it if you could share it far and wide 😉 😍

https://brymacnativebees.com.au/

You can find all of our upcoming events and shop products on this site. We will also be creating regular blogs of useful information for your reading pleasure.

Thanks
Mrs B

Implementing safe and supportive processes that protect our native bees!

20/05/2024

Just popped in to say
ITS WORLD BEE DAY

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Glass House Mountains, QLD

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http://brymacnativebees.com.au/

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Videos

New rescue just opened in its new location. See the bees fanning in the entry. They are fanning to bring in warm air after a cold night.

Princess hatching in AA hive. This was a queenless hive that I added the queen cell to from another hive. She was successful in becoming this hive’s new queen.

Thought it was high time I disconnected this eduction This was connected to a TC hive over 3 years ago. This was done in order to show people that unless your mother hive is chock o block don’t bother connecting an eduction. The hive it was connected to had a long brood but not quite the width needed and still had space to fill with stores. The mother hive is still going great despite being connected to this hive for 3 years. The brood has now grown to the size to perform an eduction but it still has a bit of space to fill. #brymacnativebees #nativebeerescue #nativebeeboxes #nativebees

Take 2. A highlight of todays workshop. An AA queen laying an egg & how fussy she is on the provisions.

It’s been a ripper winter for the bees so far. Every day has been warming up to over 25 here. These are TC in the hospital room. Where they were located at the owners was in full shade & they had issues warming up to get going so I brought them home for some recuperation before they are relocated back to a sunny position.

6 days in the hospital room since reboxing. It’s amazing what they can do when kept warm 24/7 it’s non stop work.

These were all out as soon as it warmed to fight temp. All other outside hives took much longer as they need to fan in warm air to warm the interior first.

This box was under a tree in shade and had no rain cover on it. The lid is black with soot. Got 250gram of cadaghi resin just from the super.

Always employ a bait box on a fighting/takeover swarm. This is what happens if you let nature take its course. If the 2 hives are equally matched then it spells disaster for both hives. This hive came under attack several weeks ago just before the owner went away for 2 weeks. He came home to a hive full of maggots. Both syphid & pollen beetle. #nativebeerescue #brymacnativebees

This queen has succeeded. She was hatched from a queen cell that I put in from another hive & has been accepted. She’s done her royal court & the nurse bees are now building new brood cells. #brymacnativebees #nativebeerescue #austrolebias

A new AA princess is hatching. The last princess that hatched a week ago was killed off perhaps due to a defective mating. We are still unsure as to why this happens sometimes. This queen cell was taken from a log rescue 2 days ago that had 3 queen cells only a day or so from hatching. As this hive had no more backup queen cells. #nativebeerescue #brymacnativebees

Princess is out of her cell. I found her out at 6pm last night. She does appear to have mated overnight. NOTE. No mating swarm has appeared.

Update on princess hatching. Day 2.

Was checking to see if the new princess had hatched. Been waiting on her as I knew she was very close to hatching. Caught her just emerging from the cell. It will be a little while before she comes fully out to mate & take over queen duties. #nativebeerescue #nativebees #brymacnativebees #Austroplebeia

Second job for this morning. Rescue a hive infested with phorid fly. Had to remove all the involucrum from the brood as it was covered in phorid eggs. All those white dots are eggs. Another 24h and I would not have anything to save. Always pays to ask questions if you are concerned your hive. #nativebeerescue #brymacnativebees #nativebees #phoridfly