Latest Products and News
The New Australian Honeybee beehive and honey super pallets!
We are proud to be able to show off our new generation of Australian Honeybee Beehive and Honey Super Pallets. We have designed 3 different sizes for both the beehive and honey super pallet to cater for majority of Beekeepers needs.
They are available from the "Hive Pallets" category in the store. They will be arriving to the warehouse in February 2020 and are available for pre-order now so be sure to place your order in ASAP to reserve stock from the first shipment!
We now stock Custom Bee Feed
Just as we need a balanced diet to maintain good health and wellbeing, so do honeybees. In fact, the productivity and lifespan of honeybees can be directly related to what they eat from the moment they hatch as larvae and throughout their brief lifespan. As a commercial or a hobbyist beekeeper, we all want our honeybees to be healthy and productive which is why we feed our honeybees Custom Bee Feed. Customer Bee Feed is an Australian formulated product which
Research Proposal – EPS Versus Wooden Beehives
We first established our Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) beehives in our beekeeping operation in Australia in the spring of 2012. We started with 100 EPS 10 frame Langstroth beehives which we ran alongside our 160 traditional 10 frame Langstroth wooden beehives. To our surprise, the EPS colonies expanded quickly and by the end of the first season had produced 35% more honey than our wooden beehives. After more than three years of positive experience with operating EPS beehives in Australia, we are compelled to conduct this research.
Finding honeybees for your first beehive
I have been approached by a number of new beekeepers who have assembled their new beehives over the winter period in anticipation of becoming a beekeeper for the first time this coming spring. They all have the same question which is, how do I get honeybees and a queenbee installed into my new beehive. This is something established beekeepers often take for granted as they have the ability to split off new colonies from their existing beehives.
