PHOTO: Austroplebeia Australis bees
The Brewarrina Aboriginal Cultural Museum has some new tenants.
Dean Haley, Brisbane Branch President of the Australian Native Bee Association recently installed four established hives of Australian Native Bees on the grounds of the museum.
Dean is a long-term bee-enthusiast and self-published author of the book ‘The Honey of Australian Native Stingless Bees’.
“I was raised on a sheep, wheat, and cattle farm in Gulgong NSW, and one day when I was ten Dad brought home an empty bee box,” he said. “We went out in the bush, cut down a tree and soon had a hive of (European) honeybees…