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What We Do

Education
Bush Bees provides educational services such as presentations, workshops, and talks at schools, early learning centres, and more. We also aim to educate Australians (and the world) about native bees through our social media and website.
Conservation
We are dedicated to the conservation of Australian Native Bees. We rescue native bee hives from locations where they are threatened by human behaviour, and install bee hotels to home solitary bees.
Cultivation
We keep bees! We are custodians to a large number of native stingless beehives and work tirelessly to take the best possible care of them. We are working towards the production of Sugarbag, Propolis, and related bee products.
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We also provide services such as hive splitting and hive hire & management, as well as selling a variety of bee-based products.
Pollination
We provide a pollination service to crop growers around NSW and QLD, for pollination of crops including strawberries, macadamias and mangos.

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Featured Products

Australian Native Beehive (with Bees)
This hive contains approximately 5, 000 stingless bees (also known as sugarbag bees) of the species Tetragonula carbonaria. These bees are perfect for backyards, schools, nursing homes, day care centres, community gardens, and more. Bush Bees are docile, harmless, effective pollinators of a wide range of plants, and they produce a small amount of delicious honey that you may be able to taste a few years down the track!
The Australian Native Bee Book by Dr Tim Heard
This book is great for beginners and experts alike, and the perfect gift for a native bee enthusiast. It is one of the most popular books on the topic, and it comes with many images, illustrations and easy to understand descriptions.
Bees are our Passion

Featured Articles

The roles of different bees in a native bee hive
There are a number of different types of bee in a stingless beehive, each with a different role - these include worker bees, queens, and drones. To find out some more details, have a look at this article.
Native bee terminology
​There is a lot of terminology around native bees, which can potentially be confusing for beginners. This article is a breakdown of the most common lingo used within the native bee community.

Are You interested in Native Bees?

One of the easiest ways to help out our native bees is to plant flowers that attract them. For a handy list of flowers that are fantastic for bees, click this button:
Secondly, a great way to help Australia's solitary native bees is to build an insect hotel. These can be as simple as a bundle of hollow reeds, or as complex as a mixture of habitats placed together in a house-shaped structure. There are various guides and inspiration on the internet so do a quick search and get building!

You can also become the custodian of a native stingless beehive, which is mostly commonly done by purchasing one.

Who are these bees for?

These adorable bees are perfect for pets, schools and children because of their docile behaviour and, of course, because they are stingless.

Keeping a hive of Native Bees is easy as they require very little maintenance, no special training, no government or council permit, and no extensive equipment. You are also helping to conserve our beautiful native species, increase the globally declining bee populations, and pollinate all the flowers in yours and your neighbours gardens (these bees can fly up to half a kilometre away)!

It is also very relaxing to sit back with a cup of tea, and watch your Bush Bees coming to and from their hive with 'Shopping Bags' full of pollen :)

"Can't thank Isaac enough for my bees. They are fantastic!!! The hive is great quality and Isaac was super easy to deal with and very accommodating.”

- Jane, Native  Bee  custodian

Pollination

These Native Bees are perfect for backyards and garden pollination, and can help to increase your veggie patch production! However, you do not need to have a huge garden with large amounts of flowering plants, as these bees will fly up to 500m away. Infact, there are people keeping bush bees on the 30th floors of apartments!

Native bush bees have proven to be productive pollinators of many crops and other plants. Plants that have been found to be benefited most include Mangoes, Avocados, Watermelons, Blueberries, Lychees and Macadamias. Stingless bees are actually better pollinators for some of these plants than honey bees! 

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game of Drones

This is a short video that gives an insight into a strange behaviour occasionally seen in native beehives - Fighting Swarms.

​Find out more here.
Isaac Mayer

Northbridge
Sydney, NSW, Australia

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