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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)
  • 11th January.
  • Recordings of most presentations are available to members on the Club's YouTube channel.

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

    • Tuesday 20th August Monthly Meeting 
    • City Buzz vs. Suburban Serenity: The Impact of Urbanisation on the Behaviour of Native Bees and Hoverflies " by Aislinn Primmer from the Integrative Cognition, Ecology and Bio-inspiration (ICEB) Research Group at Monash University Melbourne.
    • "Floral visitation in the face of climate change: a collaborative study of native bees with YolÅ‹u First Nations of NE Arnhem Land" by Clancy Lester, Master of Bioscience student at the University of Melbourne.
    • "Preparing for Varroa" by Barry Cooper.
      • These presentations have now been delivered and their recordings are now available to members on the Club's YouTube channel.
    • Tuesday 15th October Monthly Meeting (7:30 to 9:00pm)
      • "The Bee Biome" by Bob Owen, author of the "Australian Beekeeping Manuel".
      • Assessing the spread of Varroa mite in Australia: Lessons from New Zealand by Jay Iwasaki, Biosciences School, University of Melbourne
      • These presentations have now been delivered and their recordings and are now available to members on the Club's YouTubeTube channel.
    • In-Person Events: 
      • 20th November (6:45 to 9:15pm) at a Community Hotel
        • New Zealand Honeydew Honey by Sarsha Manuel
        • Local honey production by Viv and George Fox.
        • Two-queen swarm control by Peter Lewis.


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