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  • 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)
  • For Australian and International; members
  • The 18th March Forum has now occurred.
  • Recordings of its presentations will soon be available to members on the Club's YouTube channel.
  • The next Forum is on Saturday 5th April.

Zoom Evening Meetings (7:30 to 9:00 pm AEST) 

 Tuesday 15th April by Zoom

  • "Chemical Residues in Honey" by Dennis Webber Senior Scientist (Chemistry), Chemical Residue Laboratory, Biosecurity Queensland  Department of Primary Industries.
    • "Bee-lieve it or not: bees also count from left to right" by Jung-Chun (Zaza) Kuo, formerly from the University of Melbourne.
Tuesday 18th March by Zoom
  • 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.

In-Person Events: 
  • 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
      • 19th February (6:45 to 9:15pm) at a Community Hotel
        • "Varroa Update" by Commercial beekeeper, Craig Scott
        • "Using Beeswax in Original Works of Art" by Joanna Buckley, 2024 Honours Graduate from the Victorian College of the Arts
        • "Making Lip Balms" by Viv Fox
        • This event has already occurred and some of its presentations will soon be available  on the Club's YouTube channel.


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