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EVENTS
Events, Meetings, Field Days
Details of Sydney Bee Club’s upcoming events as well as bees related events from other organisations are listed to the left or below. Please register Sydney Bee Clubs events through Eventbrite. Here is a small summary, more details to be found on Eventbrite.
Apiary Field Days are held in Spring, Summer, an early autumn in Randwick community centre. We demonstrate how to manipulate bees, perform brood and disease check ups, honey harvest, swarm prevention, and winter preparation. In any case it replace a full course that has to be done before to acquire a hive It is important to pre-register / book for field days (as numbers in the apiary are limited).
Note: We are not able to accommodate children under 8 at the apiary field days. Children from 9 to 15 years must be supervised by a responsible guardian/adult and have their own protective suit (we don’t have children’s suits to hire at this stage).
Up Coming Events
Sydney Bee Club – Native Mites for Native Bees with Guest Speaker Dr Ros Gloag
Monday26 October 2026
6:30 ~ 7:30PM
Waverley Library Theatrette
32–48 Denison Street, Bondi Junction
Please register via Humanitix
Sydney Bee Club Members: Free
Non-Members: $5
Join Sydney Bee Club for an engaging evening with Dr Ros Gloag, exploring the fascinating relationships between Australian native bees and their mites. About the Talk
Native Mites for Native Bees
Australian native stingless bees play an important role in pollination and have exciting potential as managed pollinators for fruit and nut crops. But did you know that native mites also live in close association with these bees and their brood?
In this fascinating presentation, Dr Ros Gloag will introduce us to the diversity of bee–mite relationships in Australia and explore how these interactions differ from those involving the notorious Varroa mite.
Are native mites friends or foes? Come along to discover what these relationships reveal about the ecology of Australia’s native bees and their role as pollinators.
Dr Ros Gloag is an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Sydney, specialising in biodiversity, pollinator conservation, and the genetics and ecology of Australian native bees.
She holds a prestigious University of Sydney Robinson Fellowship and an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellowship, supporting her research into Australian stingless bees.