Katie Oxenham, Manager Urban Ecology at the City of Sydney, has contacted us to say Chippo’s new bee hive will be coming around September.

Shortly we’ll choose a location for it.

The new hive will bring to two the number of hives here.  These native, stingless bees will fly up to a kilometre and are better at pollinating than the larger, introduced stinging bees mainly due to the smaller bodies they have which allow them to get into a wider range of flowers and so to spread a greater variety of pollen.

The hive will be installed in September.  I won’t be here then.  If anyone’s interested in bees here and would like to manage this little endeavour do contact me on the blog or if you see me around.

It’s a sweet feeling, isn’t it, to know these tireless little helpers will soon be zipping around here?

Thanks, Sydney Council,

M