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WELCOME

  • The Melbourne Beekeepers Club provides fellowship and beekeeping support to beekeepers in urban and rural areas
  • We deliver beekeeping education, encourage best beekeeping practice and emphasise biosecurity.
  • Club membership gives you access to all our meetings, events and training, recordings from our Zoom meetings and beekeeping resources.
  • Membership is only available to persons 18 years of age and over.

MEMBER EVENTS

Interactive Beekeeping Zoom Forums:

  • Saturdays  (10:30am to12:00 pm AEDT/ AEDT)
  • For Australian and International; members
  • The 5th April and 10th May  Forums have now occurred.
  • Recordings of selected presentations are available to members on the Club's YouTube channel.
  • Next Forum is on 9th August.

Upcoming In-Person Event:

  • 20th August  (6:45 to 9:20pm) at a Community Hotel
    • Practical Advice for Flow Hives and Poly Hives
    • Tasting of 2025 Competition honey
    • Annual General Meeting

Immediate Past In-Person Event

  • Wednesday 21st May  (6:45 to 9:15pm) at a Community Hotel
    • "Preparing for and Dealing with Varroa" by Ashton Edgley, Senior Victorian Varroa Development Officer
    • 2024-25 Honey Competition (see Members section for winners)

Upcoming Zoom Evening Meetings

  • Tuesday 17th June (7:30 to 9:00 pm AEST)
    • "History of Varroa Treatments in New Zealand" by Frank Lindsay, Wellington Beekeepers Association
    • "Use of Varroa Treatments by Recreational Beekeepers" by Debbie Rodda, Yackandandah Beekeepers Club
  • Tuesday 15th July (7:30 to 9:00 pm AEST)
    • Current research into Bee Cognition" by researchers at the ICEB lab at Monash University 
    • "Detection of Deformed Wing Virus in a recent incursion of Dwarf Asian Honey Bee in Western Australia" by JP Scheerlinck

Immediate Past Zoom Evening Meetings  

  • Tuesday 15th April 
    • "Chemical Residues in Honey" by Dennis Webber Senior Scientist (Chemistry), Chemical Residue Laboratory, Biosecurity Queensland  Department of Primary Industries.
      • "Do bees count from left to right?" by Jung-Chun (Zaza) Kuo, formerly from the University of Melbourne.
      • This event has already occurred and  its presentation are available  on the Club's YouTube channel.
Tuesday 18th March 
    • Practical mite insights (Varroa and Tropilaelaps) and SCU's new Bee Research and Extension Lab by Cooper Schouten, Southern Cross University (SCU), Lismore NSW
    • Micro Honey Harvester by Simon Mildren, Founder and CEO  Hivekeepers.com
    • This event has already occurred and some of its presentations will soon be available  on the Club's YouTube channel.


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