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Meetings of the Beekeepers Association of the ACT are held on the second Thursday of the month at 7.30 pm at the Canberra Institute of Technology, Heysen St, Weston ACT 2611 in Building A.
The Association produces a monthly newsletter which is published here for viewing as Web pages; newsletters are also published in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format.

June 2008 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS: Next meeting: Alan Wade, President’s report, Annual Dinner, Parliamentary enquiry, talks with TAMS (ACT Government)

May 2008 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS: Next meeting: Des Cannon, President’s report, General meeting next time, Pollination booklet, Toxic honey, May reminders, Amazing ready reckoner, A trip to NZ in quest of the bumblebee, Empty super award get ready now, Letters to the editor, ABK digest)

April 2008 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS: Next meeting: our web page, President’s report: You could be a winner too, The bees’ cricket game: one for the children, Any AFB hives for Sydney? A load leaves April 9. Be quick! April reminders: Autumn shutdown, T shirts and logo designs, Making mead - the art and the science a few more recipes, And More: bees and wine, nematodes, queen breeding.....)

March 2008 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS: President's Report, AGM, Show Results, March Reminders, Small hive beetles, Making Mead)

February 2008 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS Next meeting. Preparing for Canberra Show, Membership Reminder, February reminders, Mead Making, Mystery of Bee Flight Revealed)

December 2007 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS Next meeting. Aussies not to blame for CCD, Mythical Bees, December Reminders, Making Mead)

November 2007 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS Next meeting. Swarm collecting, President’s report, Hire rules for our extractor, Mythical bees, November reminders, The art and science of making mead, News from Murrumbateman)

October 2007 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS Next meeting. New rules + queen rearing, President’s report, Native bees for Mars? Apimondia an impression, Celestial bees. Part 3, October reminders, Inspect A man who loves his bees, a blanket for the hive! Crops and honeybee pollination, Cooking with honey, Nosema in Spring)

September 2007 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS Next meeting. Spring Inspection + practical demo on Saturday, President’s report, Laying workers, Celestial bees. Part 2, September reminders, Book review From bees to buzz bombs, Topics from Hansard, ACT bee brain drain, Small hive beetle eater the new invention, US enquiry into CCD)

August 2007 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS Next meeting. Chalk brood President’s report Bee sting therapy for MS. Organic bees don’t suffer from CCD Celestial bees. Something quite different August reminders. Are they hungry? Book review Bee AGSkills Call for Centre of Excellence Lecture on CCD CSIRO and more !)

July 2007 Newsletter .... PDF format

(CONTENTS: Next meeting. European wasps, President’s report Empty super award come ready to vote, Beekeeping and the law. Part three, July reminders. Something to think about, What’s killing American honeybees? At last an authoritative paper on this subject, Research in dire straights, So you want to export bees to USA. This is how it is, Recipe. Steamed pud)

Newsletter Archives (from August 1999)

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The PDF format enables the rendering of the newsletter to retain its original structure, complete with all graphics, and ensures that, if printed out, the output will be identical to the original published newsletter.
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