The Beekeepers Club Inc.

Useful Links to Bee and Beekeeping related organisations and web sites

Friends of the Bees is a charity, founded to conserve and protect bees, to educate people about bees and to research and promote more natural beekeeping methods. We aim to work with others to help restore the natural balance between honeybees and other insect pollinators.

Australia's Virtual Herbarium - everything about Australian Flora

Omlet.co.uk - Introducing a new style beehive - The Beehaus

The Australasian Beekeeper - Australia's National Beekeeping Journal

Department of Primary Industries, Victoria - The DPI's web page about "Honey Bees"

HoneyBee Australis - Resourceful site for beekeepers in Australia.

Beekeepers' Associations - by HoneyBee Australis

Australian Queen Bee Breeders Association - by HoneyBee Australis

Dept of Primary Industries & Fisheries, Queensland - Queensland DPI site re Bees

Department of Primary Industries, NSW - NSW DPI site re Bees

Rural Industries R&D Corporation - Resourceful site for the beekeeper

Australian Honey Bee Industry Council - As the name suggests

http://www.aussiebee.com.au - Web site about Australian native bees - fascinating.

Stingless Bees - CSIRO web page about Australian native stingless bees

Bindaree links to Australian bee sites - Comprehensive collection of links to points of interest for the Aussie beekeeper.

Agrifood Awareness Australia - Search this web site for "bees" to get some interesting articles.

Vegetarian Network Victoria - Promoting a healthy and passionate lifestyle.

Vegetarian Network Victoria Article: The Honey Question
Many articles have been written about whether honey is suitable for vegans. Most of these articles focus on the health and ethical arguments associated with the consumption of honey and other bee products and do raise several interesting points. For more information on these aspects (from various viewpoints) please refer to this site.


Subscribe to BeeMail - You can subscribe to receive your free copy of BeeMail (site of The Honey Farm in Tasmania)


Beekeeping in New Zealand - Stay in touch with beekeeping in New Zealand - they already have Varroa.

New Zealand Food Safety Authority - A very interesting source of information


Bee Keeping - Resourceful site with plenty of information about bees and beekeeping. (USA site)

BeeHoo - World's Beekeeping Directory

Apiservices, The Beekeeping portal - World's Beekeeping Events - An international portal

Centre for Ecological Apiculture - Website about "natural", "harmonic" and "organic" beekeeping (as opposed to conventional)

Apicultural Review Letters - from the site above

Centre for social medicine and natural Api-Therapy - from the site above




Beekeeping in South Africa - Free beekeeping resources including the honey bee forage zone plotter.


CyberBee Net - a service provided by Zachary Huang, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. The site was established as a portal for honey bee related information, which include honey bee biology, research and beekeeping.