Department of Primary Industry Web Links

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Hobby Beekeeping	http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/animals-and-livestock/bees-wasps/hobby-beekeeping
DPI NSW Honey Bees	http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/livestock/honey-bees
Hive Management - Books - Beekeeper information	http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/livestock/honey-bees/management
Raising Queen Bees	http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/animals-and-livestock/bees-wasps/raising-queen-honey-bees
Small Hive Beetle	http://www.new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/pests-diseases-and-weeds/animal-diseases/bees-and-wasps/ag1080-small-hive-beetle--a-beekeeping-pest
Which diseases of bees must be notified	http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/pests-diseases-and-weeds/animal-diseases/bees-and-wasps/ag0763-which-diseases-of-bees-must-be-notified
Beekeeping and the Livestock Disease Control Act	http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/about-agriculture/legislation-regulation/all-acts/beekeeping-livestock-disease-control-act
Diagnosis of American Foulbrood Disease of Honey Bee Brood	http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/pests-diseases-and-weeds/animal-diseases/bees-and-wasps/diagnosis-of-americal-foulbrood-disease-of-honey-bee-brood
Nosema Disease of Honey Bees	http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/pests-diseases-and-weeds/animal-diseases/bees-and-wasps/ag0300-nosema-disease-of-honey-bees
Wax Moth - A Pest of Combs and Honey Bee Products	http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/pests-diseases-and-weeds/pest-insects/wax-moth-pest-of-combs-and-honey-bee-products
Safe Beekeeping Practices	http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/animals-and-livestock/bees-wasps/safe-beekeeping-practices
Honey Bees Home Page	http://new.dpi.vic.gov.au/agriculture/animals-and-livestock/bees-wasps
Making up a wooden frame 7 mins long	Making up a wooden frame video

Hot Topic Video's

The following link is a video from America regarding the possible causes of Colony Collapse Disorder. Stan Glowacki brought my attention to it. Its about 20 minutes long but extremely interesting. To stop or pause it, run your mouse over the bottom of it for the controls to come up.	http://vimeo.com/29419200

Send in your beekeeping Video links so that this page can be updated. As you can see we have plenty of space for them.

There are many interesting videos on the YouTube Tab.

YouTube videos

A Hila Science Video - 10 min	Life Cycle of a bee
57 seconds long	Bee Waggle Dance
Interpreting the Language of Bees 2.42 long	Language of bees
Australian Blue Banded Bees	Blue banded bee
A Mitra Production. SBS Documentary. 52 mins long. Leave it to download and come back to watch it. An extremely interesting documentary showing the Varroa Mite and how it behaves. Dr. Warren Anderson desribes many aspects and how he hopes to prevent the mite from re producing in the future. Australia is the only country in the world that does not have the Varroa Mite. Well worth waiting for the download time.	Honey Bee Blues
This video is 4.13 long. Getting a swarm out of a bush and put them into a box.	How to catch a swarm of bees
Video is 3.10 long.	How to catch a swarm from a hedge
Video is 2.25 Getting the swarm into a basket and running them up a sheet into the hive. I thought they would be best to put the main swarm into the box and the remaining would walk up the sheet.	My bees are swarming
Video is 4.05 long and quite interesting	How to collect and bottle honey
Video 2.25 long	Honey extracting and bottling
video 6.35. Using a clearing board and uncapping box.	Heathers How to Honey Harvesting
NSW DPI. This link is excellent and takes you to a series of 9 videos on Diseases and hard copy resources.	Various links to Pests and Diseases
Please let the Webmaster know if any of the links are broken	There are hundreds of videos. Just search for a video you want. Let me know if its good and I will add it to the links on this page.

Bee Equipment Suppliers

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Stan Glowacki Beekeeping Supplies for Gippsland

Stan is happy to order in your requirements if they are not in stock.

Email: jeeralangapiary@bigpond.com

60 Koala Drv Jeeralang Junction VIC 3840
Phone: (03) 5122 2641

Bobs Beekeeping. Barbara is a great person to talk to, and happy to discuss your requirements. They supply the usual hive parts as well as pre built boxes. The pre built boxes are only available if you order them and give them a couple of weeks to build them.

They do not supply plastic frames and foundation.

http://www.bobsbeekeeping.com.au/

79 Zig Zag Road Eltham VIC 3095
Phone: 03 9439 5410

Redpaths. Supply an extensive range of equipment, including plastic frames with plastic foundation. They are currently waiting on pre built 8 frame boxes coming from China. They don't arrive until mid October 2011 so don't know the quality or price yet. They do have 10 frame pre built boxes in stock.

http://www.redpaths.com.au/

193 Como Parade East, Parkdale, Victoria 3195
Phone: 9587 5950

Email: redpaths@redpaths.com.au

Beekeeping Web Sites

Victorian Apiarist Association

Beekeepers Associations List

The Beekeepers Club

Geelong Beekeepers Club

Hobby Beekeeping DPI

Backyard beekeeping the green way

Vic Honey

Please send in your favourite beekeeping sites so that links can be provided to them. We are happy to expand this section to cover all the sites you recommend.

DPI Apairy Inspector for Gippsland

YouTube videos