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:
- Wednesday 20th August (6:45 to 9:20pm) at a Community Hotel
- "Learning how to evaluate your own honey" by Honey Sommelier, Jess Locarnini
- Tasting of 2025 Competition honey entries
- MBC 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 Meeting:
- Tuesday 15th July (7:30 to 9:00 pm AEST)
- "A wake-up Call from a Red Dwarf"- The detection of deformed wing virus in a recent incursion of dwarf Asian honey bee in Western Australia". Presented by JP Scheerlinck
- "So many bees, So many mites". Includes Tropilaelaps Mite. Presented by Frewoini Baume, 2022 Global Footprints (Agriculture) Scholarship holder.
Immediate Past 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
- YouTube videos of both presentations available very soon on the Club's YouTube channel.
- 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 presentations are available on the Club's YouTube channel.
