Honey bee management
Note: Queen bee with yellow dot
General information
- Bee Agskills (book)
- Commercial beekeeping in Australia (book)
- National best management practice for beekeeping in the Australian environment
- Organic certified production with bees
- The bee book: beekeeping in Australia (book)
Beekeepers' responsibilities
- Backyard beekeeping
- Bee swarms and their control
- Beekeeping Code of Practice for NSW
- Insurance for beekeepers
- Responsible beekeeping (in English, Arabic, Macedonian, Turkish)
Management tools
Drones
- Drone honey bees: rearing and maintenance
- Drone mother colonies: number and position
- Drone mother stock: selection and drone quality
Queen bees
- Introduction and early performance of queen bees: some factors affecting success (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Rearing queen bees
Breeding
Nutrition
- Fat bees, skinny bees: a manual on honey bee nutrition for beekeepers (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Fatty acids: an alternative control strategy for honeybee diseases (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Honey and pollen flora suitable for planting in south-eastern NSW
- Honey bee nutrition and supplementary feeding
- How much canola pollen is in canola (Brassica napus) honey? (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Nutritional value of bee collected pollens (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Pollen trapping and storage
Pesticides
- Bee Alert: tool to prevent chemical injury to bees (www.cottoncrc.org.au)
- Pesticides - a guide to their effects on honey bees
- Pesticides - reducing damage to honey bees
Bee products
- Beeswax (www2.dpi.qld.gov.au)
- Honey grades (www2.dpi.qld.gov.au)
- Making beeswax furniture polish
- Removing honey from the hive
Seasonal management
- Apiary management for winter/early spring pollination
- Honey bees on canola
- Spring management of bees
- Wintering bees