Our Story
We all share a common issue: no bees = no life. Save the Bees Australia aims to empower others to create change in their world. Bees and humanity face a major challenge from insecticides, herbicides, industrial-scale monoculture food farming and habitat fragmentation. Together we can tackle these issues and Save the Bees.
What we Do
Save the Bees Australia’s aim is to unite like-minded people and raise awareness of the importance of bees and the plight that bees face. We are passionate advocates and educators who work with the community to change policy and personal action to support bee populations. Save the Bees Australia evolved from saving and rehousing problematic bee infestations to a social enterprise advocating for organic farming, nutrition, pollution, environment, education, wisdom, permaculture and love.
How you can Help
Donate
Your support allows us to keep Save the Bees Australia generating change. Please call us if you have any questions about your contribution. How do donations help?
Sign the Petition
Sign our petition to have imported honey labeled with country of origin. Help prevent corporations from confusing consumers by not adding country of origin on their imported honey products.
Personal Action
Learn how you can create a bee-friendly home and support bee-friendly practices.
Report a bee swarm
Do you have a swarm of bees that are bothering you? Swarm Patrol puts you in contact with beekeepers who will house and relocate the colony.
Bees are at their most vulnerable and friendly when they swarm. Every bee in the hive knows the status of the hive’s health, production, and coherence. When the hive has ample honey and favourable weather conditions the colony will split to reproduce. Swarming involves the oldest and wisest bees leaving their established location to scout out a new location.
Would you like to donate to Bee the Cure?
Your support would mean a lot to us, If you have any questions please called us 0400 882 146
1 day ago
On my way to collect Rose Caulfield Photography to work yesterday I saw a commotion on the side of the busy Melbourne road. Rose managed to stop this echidna from getting run over. Fortunately we had beekeeping gloves in the car.
Drivers be careful this time of year there is a lot of wildlife on the move on the #mornintonpeninsula .
For others watching this. Echidnas live on road verges. This echinda isn't tame this is stressful. Move off roads, but don't relocate echidnas please. They may have a puggle nearby and moving it may put both in more danger.
2 days ago
Salt-seeking bees
Unsurprisingly, given bees' need for nectar, the insects' feet are incredibly sensitive to sugar. But they're even more attuned to salt. The bees need salt for their own metabolic processes, and to carry back to their hives to help larvae develop. Thus, homeowners' saltwater pools attract bees. The first-ever investigation of the honeybee ability to taste with their front feet may explain a persistent bee mystery: Why they visit saltwater swimming pools.Saltwater swimming pools don't require chlorine or other chemicals, but they attract honeybees en masse. Now, scientists find that bees have taste receptors on their feet that are so sensitive to salt, that they even dwarf the bees' capacity to taste sweets. They might just sense, with the tips of the legs, the presence of the salty solution and then decide to land. The solution to stop bees going into pool is to create an alternative safe place for bees to drink. #savethebees
2 days ago
Australia has over 1500 native bees the majority are solitary bees which means they live alone or in small families.
Some indigenous bees like the blue banded bee are superior pollinators as they are able to utilise buzz pollination, a method that European Honeybees do not use. Some flowers hide their pollen inside tiny capsules. A Blue Banded Bee can grasp a flower of this type and shiver her flight muscles, causing the pollen to shoot out of the capsule. She can then collect the pollen for her nest and carry it from flower to flower, pollinating the flowers. Quite a few of our native Australian flowers require buzz pollination
Unfortunately, Australian Indigenous Bees like the blue banded bee are experiencing health and population decline due to the use of toxic pesticides such as neonicotinoids. Unlike European Honeybees, solitary bees nest in the soil or vegetation meaning their exposure to these pesticides is greatly increased compared to bees that live in a hive.
Sydney Sock Projects Blue Banded bee socks are a fantastic conversation starter not only about native bees but about their increased risk to toxic agricultural controls. 10% of proceeds are donated to Save the Bees Australia which we use to help fight the battle against these nasty pesticides.
If you want to learn more about neonicotinoids head over to our website and make sure you sign our petition calling for the ban of Neonicotinoids in Australia.
www.change.org/p/ban-neonicotinoids-in-australia/u/27729669
Blue Banded Bee Socks | Supporting Bee Conservation
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4 days ago
@nicolas_trainerbees_cannah
My friend Nicholas is testing the cannabis resin collected by #bees as #propolis for healing benefits.
There are humans laws and natural laws . Fortunately some of us are born with a spiritual immune system and have the courage to flaunt laws that are not in the community's interest. The best #Marijuana is outdoor #organic. In many lush areas around Australia courageous people are growing bush #Weed to medicate and relax other Australians. Science is catching up to wisdom of mystiques. The parliament has just legalised marijuana for medical use.
Death by marijuana intoxication has never occurred unlike common prescribed pharmaceuticals such as benzodiazepines #Xanax #vallium and #serepax. This group of prescribed drugs kill more Australians than all illicit drugs combined including ice. We hear little about this in the media. Is this because big pharmaceutical makes so much money out of misery.
#Marijuana like #alcohol should be used in moderation and avoided by adolescents. Side effects include chronic laughter, heightened sexual experience , paranoia , hunger.
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#cannahoney #nicolastrainerbees #rawcannahoney
6 days ago
𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 | 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄 | 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝟏𝟑𝟎 𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒 |
When we met our new collaborator Sparkke, we were attracted by their for-purpose social enterprise structure and their values. 100% natural, no pesticides or preservatives, no sulphurs. I got curious and asked Sparkke to produce a premium, ethically sourced, sustainable and cruelty-free product that contained local raw honey (Initially mead!) The result?
𝐀 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐮𝐫.
Rose Kentish, Sparkke Co-Founder had distilled their 100% natural pale ale and ginger beer, whose use-by date was slowly winding down during Covid lockdowns, flavoured with honey, spices and propolis.
Both the honey and the propolis sustainably harvested by Sam, a local Adelaide beekeeper from his hives in his coastal home in the Fleurieu Peninsula, SA. The result is a delicious, hand labelled and bottled Honey Malt Liqueur that we are proud to have certified with our Save The Bees seal. A seal that warrants the source and the quality of the honey inside and is our first, small step in raising awareness and changing behaviours in an industry where labelling is murky at best.
𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟑𝟎 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝, 𝐰𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲.
sparkke.com/collections/full-circle-spirits/products/honey-malt-liqueur
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6 days ago
returntonow.net/2020/11/19/heres-how-bees-and-butterflies-see-flowers-no-wonder-they-love-them/?f...
6 days ago
Interested in becoming a guardian of the bees? Emily teaches a unique gentle approach on how we can support the bees to great a mutually beneficial relationship with these sacred beeings. If you can not make it in person her workshop will also be available online through ZOOM 🙌🐝