VIDEO: Native stingless bees – Adding brood to a budding box
Monday, 30 October 2017
by Natura Pacific
Once again we join Natura’s Director, and resident native bee expert, Kieran to learn more about keeping and caring for native stingless bees. In this video Kieran, with some help from his young son, shows you how to extract brood from an established hive to transfer into a budding box to create a whole new
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VIDEO: Inspiring Schools – A beautiful permaculture garden at a local school
Monday, 19 June 2017
by Natura Pacific
So many schools, both big and small, undertake some wonderfully inspiring programs for their students and community. Here at Natura we love having the opportunity to share some of the things we are lucky enough to see while visiting these great inspiring schools on our travels. Take a look at the beautiful permaculture garden at
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VIDEO: Native stingless bees – How to make a hive seperator
Thursday, 25 May 2017
by Natura Pacific
Another great video about how to care for a native bee hive. This time Kieran and his young son Beau show you how to make a hive seperator, along with how to install it and how it will benefit your own native bee hive. To see our other videos about our wonderful native bees take a
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VIDEO: Native stingless bees – Rescue and recovery (Part 5)
Sunday, 19 February 2017
by Natura Pacific
In this final video of our 5 part series on rescue and recovery of some native stingless bees Kieran talks about the progress of the hive once it was removed from the development site and how some unexpected challenges lay ahead for this little colony of bees. In case you missed them, click on these
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VIDEO: Native stingless bees – Rescue and recovery (Part 4)
Monday, 09 January 2017
by Natura Pacific
In this video (part 4 of 5 videos) we watch as Mark and Kieran work together to cut the tree that contains a native bee hive so that it can be safely and carefully relocated away from the clearing works that would have otherwise have seen this hive destroyed. In this case the skilled work
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