First 3 queens are out and laying!

Article from Beeculture, The Magazine of American Beekeeping 12/9/17

Large scale biosecurity checks of honey bee hives has found signs of American foulbrood.

Agriculture Victoria undertook biosecurity check of bee hives from Victoria, NSW and Queensland as more than 4.2 billion bees were transported to Victoria’s north west to pollinate almond blossoms.

More than 1000 hives were audited and more than 100 were found to have clinical signs of American foulbrood.

Original article here

Great to see hives on site and a start to develop the apiary. This will be a very important asset for the club for teaching and hands on experience for members. 

On another matter I congratulate all the new committee on their election and feel confident the club will really develop under their stewardship. 

As Andrew pointed out during his Secretary report we have a large number of members who have not listed their bee registration number on their member profile. I remind all members that it is now a requirement that all beekeepers be registered. Please ensure your registration is completed.

Today we moved the club hives to their new home overlooking the St John's community garden. An exciting development!

The 2017-8 committee was elected unopposed at the AGM on 17th August.  

This event is Sunday 8t October.Further details here.

Article in Sydney Daily Telegraph.  Please note I am not endorsing this, merely reporting it

Details available here

For information, here is a report from one of the hive inspections of the day.

There are also a number of reports from the Steering visits on the mentoring page (members tab).

The club has a Flow hive at the Saxon St site.  I have an electronic hive scale attached and I thought you might be interested to see the data.  Not much nectar coming in at present - Melbourne weather! (although there was a good week Jan 5-12)