Pollination Service

Since the year 2000, here at the Australian Native Bee Crop Pollination Service, we have realised the importance of Australian Native Stinless Bees. We can now offer the horticultural industry a choice and an advantage with the use of our Stingless Native bees.

Our hives are very diverse and can accommodate many situations - from the small breeding tents in trial plots to the broad acre crops such as canola and macadamia. With strong pollination arise seeds and kernels which have been observed to be larger and with a higher oil content. And macadamia crops have been recorded to have better recovery rates just to name few advantages.

Hives should be ordered several weeks in advance to avoid disappointment.

Hive Sales

We have been in the native bee industry for some 15 years and as a , result we have gathered gonsiderable knowledge on box(hive) design. Firstly my boxes are made from Australian native timbers which have been treated to withstand moisture ingress on the end grains. Each box is in three sections, Bottom, Middle, and Lid.

The hive entrance in the bottom box in positioned so as to allow a natural flow of air when needed, from the entrance and up through the colony to the top ventilation holes in order to regulate temperature.

The middle section has wire framing rebated in the bottom to allow easy splitting and to eliminate any chance of slumping if needed.

The lid comes in two parts, a zincalume cover to eliminate water from the lid, down to the sides of the top box, a double thickness of treated timbers and with the option of cross flow ventilation.

A honey section is in the design stages and is soon to make our hives a complete package.

Our native bee colonies have been chosen from our vast number of parent hives and from 2012 we will warrant that every hive will have an established new queen with vigour, to provide you (the new owner) the best opportunity to start your own apiary.

Propagating Service

From years of research and our own financial backing, we have developed a new propagating technique (called the Engender technique)and now can offer native bee keepers a chance to produce new colonies with new queens in a time frame of ranging from 4 -6 weeks without splitting or any manipulation of your hive.

Our technique is based on the native bees ability to recolonise as if they were in a natural bush land setting.