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Greg's Native Stingless Bees

Greg's Native Stingless Bees- passionate about native beekeeping & giving others the confidence to keep them. Specialising in rescue, log and box hives.

We are passionate about native stingless beekeeping and giving others the confidence to keep them. We have over 20 unique hives on display that we enjoy showing to visitors. We provide practical friendly advice to beginners thinking of owning their first hive through to more advanced native bee keepers. If you would like to visit to have a look at our setup and to ask any questions please phone on 0474299821. We are around most days of the week.

18/03/2026

Domino Cuckoo Bee - Native solitary bee
Guessing that someone thought these amazing bees had a resemblance to dice with their white spots on their black fur.
Thanks again Graeme Swinbourne for sharing his photos. The solitary bees obviously love his geisha girl plant flowers.

11/03/2026

Neon Cuckoo Bee - Australian Native

A stunning iridescent blue and back coloured bee. They are solitary bees.

Just like Cuckoo birds they lay their eggs in the nests of Blue Banded Bees to eat the provisions placed in the nests by those bees.

Thanks again to Graeme Swinbourne for his wonderful photos.

03/03/2026

Beeutiful Big Blue Banded Bees

These Australian native bees are truly beautiful. They are buzz pollinating solitary bees (please see previous post about Teddy bear bees for an explanation of what constitutes solitary bees that are buzz pollinators).
Thanks once again Graeme Swinbourne for sharing your excellent photos.

25/02/2026

Teddy Bear Bees - Australian Native Bee

Cute name for a very cute bee.
They are buzz pollinators meaning they blast flowers with air from their wings to release pollen from flowers that have antlers holding the pollen like tomato flowers.
They are also solitary bees. Unlike social bees (honey bees and native stingless bees) which have a single fertile queen and thousands of sterile female workers each female solitary bee is fertile and they have individual nests to lay their eggs.

Photos of these cute bees were taken by Graeme Swinbourne. Thank you Graeme for sharing.

11/12/2025

Hive Rescue for Brighton Health Hub

We have successfully rescued a native stingless beehive from a lightning rod pit at the Brighton Health Hub which is on Brisbane’s northern bayside.

After recovering for a few weeks at our home we installed the hive back in the Hub’s Wellbeing Garden.

The lightning rod pit is much like a water metre box with a steel rod in the centre. (Photo attached)

The bees are Tetragonula Hockingsi.
As can be seen from the photos there is a healthy brood with newly covered egg sacs and open egg sacs clearly visible.

We hope the Health Hub community enjoy their bees for years to come as we have a enjoyed carrying out a successful rescue and giving the hive a long term home.

27/07/2024

It’s time
After nearly 15 years of running my native stingless bee hobb/business it is time for me to close the business side and to just focus on my hobby.
I will no longer be providing services like hive splitting and honey harvesting and will no longer be providing products like hive boxes and roofs.

If you need and assistance with your bees I would highly recommend Steve Flavel at Clontarf on the Redcliffe Peninsula. He is a friendly helpful expert in keeping native stingless bees.
You can contact Steve through his impressive website at Hivecraft.com.au

It has been an enjoyable, challenging and fulfilling period in my life. I have had the pleasure of making many new friends and meeting hundreds of lovely people.

I never dreamt that nearly 6,000 people would chose to follow my page or that I would have a book published.

Going forward I plan to do a lot more fishing and continue to enjoy my grandchildren and my bees.

Thank you everyone, cheers and regards
Greg

20/03/2024

Nashville State School Log Hive

We have donated a rescued log hive to some of our grandchildren’s school for the school’s Garden Club
After transporting the hive to the school we did a lunch time presentation to the garden club members. Which was enjoyable for us as much as for the kids with a couple of display hives with perspex viewing panels helping to explain to the kids what is going on inside their log hive.
The kids asked great questions with one asking if my phone message bank starts with the words “buzz buzz”
Payton and Bailey the two older grandchildren in the photo helped explaining what was going on in the display hives for the other kids. They did a great job.

12/12/2023

We have some great looking rescued log hives available 5x Tetragonula Carbonaria log hives (first 5photos) and 2 x Austroplebeia Australis log hives
They make wonderful living garden features. They have hardwood roofs and bases fixed to them
They are $550 each pickup from our place at Brighton 4017

29/09/2023

ALL SOLD
Like to own a rescued log hive?

We have 5 rescued log hives available and they make wonderful garden features
The first 3 photos are Austroplebeia Australis AA hives the last 2 are Tetragonula Carbonaria
TC hives
Please message if you are interested and for price
They are pickup only from Brighton

15/06/2023

A more attractive visitor to the hive then the one in the previous post
Probably attractive to the sweet smell of the bees honey

06/06/2023

Strange Hive Visitor - A bloody big rat

Nothing for the bees to worry about as it is night time and the bees are safely nestled in their hive.
The rat may even be enjoying the warmth generated by the hive to maintain brood temperature.
Thanks for the photo Ray

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