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  • [ 24/07/2023 ] Bee Buzz Box – August 2023 Let’s Talk about Wasps Apiary
  • [ 24/07/2023 ] Bee Buzz Box October 2023 The Social Life of Bees Part II – The Sweat Bees Apiary
  • [ 23/06/2023 ] Bee Buzz Box September 2023 The Social Life of Bees Part I – Origins of Eusociality Apiary
  • [ 30/05/2023 ] Bee Buzz Box June 2023 The Catacomb Part II – Stinger Wasp Comb Apiary
  • [ 28/04/2023 ] The Catacomb Part I – Honey Bee Comb Bee Buzz Box May 2023 Apiary

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Bee Buzz Box – August 2023 Let’s Talk about Wasps

24/07/2023 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box – August 2023 Let’s Talk about Wasps

Alan Wade A remarkable feature of members of the social stinging wasp family is that they behave very much like the social corbiculate bees. However to obtain any semblance of how these two social groups […]

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Bee Buzz Box October 2023 The Social Life of Bees Part II – The Sweat Bees

24/07/2023 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box October 2023 The Social Life of Bees Part II – The Sweat Bees

Facultatively eusocial great banded furrow-bee Halictus scabiosae:(a) female with pollen on whole body, Toulouse, France;i and(b) contiguous 1-5 queen nests, Geneva, Switzerland.ii Alan Wade Social bees, not honey bees Sometimes we might ponder about how we […]

Muttabuttasaurus when first social bees emerged, Australian National Museum, 16 June 2023. Photo: Alan Wade
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Bee Buzz Box September 2023 The Social Life of Bees Part I – Origins of Eusociality

23/06/2023 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box September 2023 The Social Life of Bees Part I – Origins of Eusociality

Muttabuttasaurus when first social bees emerged,Australian National Museum, 16 June 2023.Photo: Alan Wade Alan Wade In the beginning In the beginning were the insects: And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over […]

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Bee Buzz Box June 2023 The Catacomb Part II – Stinger Wasp Comb

30/05/2023 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box June 2023 The Catacomb Part II – Stinger Wasp Comb

Frontispiece Aggregated not social mud wasp nests Alan Wade Combs and narrow passageways are the hallmarks of the social members of the giant insect order Hymenoptera. The ants and social wasps and bees that occupy […]

Frank Cheshire's 1886 drawing of honey bee comb, Volume 1, p.17.
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The Catacomb Part I – Honey Bee Comb Bee Buzz Box May 2023

28/04/2023 Alan Wade Comments Off on The Catacomb Part I – Honey Bee Comb Bee Buzz Box May 2023

Alan Wade In this month’s Bee Buzz Box introduction, we learnt that not only do different species of honey bee vary greatly in their metrics but that other factors, such as nutrition and geographic variation, […]

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Bee Buzz Box March 2023 The Goldilocks Rule

19/02/2023 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box March 2023 The Goldilocks Rule

Alan Wade One of the many challenges faced by the novice beekeeper is knowing when and how to add supers to their hives. A seemingly equally difficult task is deciding when to take supers off […]

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Bee Buzz Box February 2023 Honey bee survival

20/01/2023 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box February 2023 Honey bee survival

Alan Wade So your bees made it through last winter and, way back in early spring, you checked for disease and stores to make sure your bees could grow to give you, and your bees, […]

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Bee Buzz Box December 2022 Where Beekeepers Fear to Tread – Tom Theobald

25/11/2022 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box December 2022 Where Beekeepers Fear to Tread – Tom Theobald

Alan Wade Tom Theobald is the essence of beekeeping folklore. Of a retrospective on Tom, Rachel Gabel writing from The FencePosti records Miles McGaughey, an early associate of Tom’s, saying that: …he first knew of […]

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Bee Buzz Box April 2017 A Review of the Global Distribution of Honey Bees

09/11/2022 Alan Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box April 2017 A Review of the Global Distribution of Honey Bees

Alan Wadei Honey bees of the Apis genus are eusocial insects, that is they are socially highly-organised raising brood cooperatively and intergenerationally, and are specialised in their division of labour. They range naturally across Africa, […]

Wild bee hive located in Gum Tree
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ACT Biosecurity: Wild Bee Hive Locations Wanted

23/10/2022 Justin Freeman Comments Off on ACT Biosecurity: Wild Bee Hive Locations Wanted

ACT Biosecurity is collecting data on the distribution of wild bee hives (European honey bees) across the Australian Capital Territory. Wild bee hives are unmanaged and can be a source of spreading pests such as wax moth and small […]

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