Addison Apiaries

24/02/2026

Bees can recognise and remember human faces! Research has revealed that bees can identify faces with close to 90% accuracy. They are able to remember and distinguish familiar human faces from unfamiliar faces, and can remember them for several days.

24/02/2026

We’ve moved our bees back into higher altitudes, where the Red Stringybark, or Eucalyptus Macrorhyncha, are now in flower. These trees can grow anywhere from 12 to 35 metres in height. Their bark is deeply fissured and fibrous, and was used by aboriginal people to make shelters, canoes, ropes and netting. The honey produced from Red Stringybark flowers is deep copper to dark amber in colour. It is strongly aromatic and has a warm woody caramel flavour.

13/01/2026

Bees have many ways in which they communicate with each other. These include the use of chemical signals, known as pheromones, to alert the colony to danger, the famous “waggle” dance, a complex set of movements performed by worker bees to share directions to food sources, and the use of vibrations and touch to convey other messages in a dark hive.

Bees use a mathematical dance known as the waggle dance to communicate to other bees where to find food.In this video, we explore what this dance is and how ...

13/01/2026

Our bees have started the year with full boxes of honey after spending the past month foraging from the beautiful Eucalyptus Camaldulensis trees, commonly known as River Red Gum. These magnificent trees are a great source of both pollen and nectar. The honey produced is of reasonable density, light golden in colour, and has a unique subtly sharp and sweet flavour.

30/10/2025

Bees are acute navigators! They have exceptional memory and learning, even though their brain is the size of a sesame seed. They calculate distances from the hive using the sun as a guiding point.

30/10/2025

Yellow Box, or eucalyptus melliodora trees, can grow anywhere from 12-30 metres in height. Melliodora literally translates as “odour of honey” or “honey scented”. Honey produced from Yellow Box trees is highly sort after for its unique smooth, buttery flavour.

30/10/2025

Bee Update: Our bees survived the winter in great health. They are back in good form, foraging for nectar from the Yellow Box trees found around the Albury region.

02/06/2025

ADDISON APIARIES HONEY NOW STOCKED AT: SCOTT'S JONES ST BUTCHERY, JINDERA BUTCHERY AND THE CULCAIRN BUTCHERY

02/06/2025

Bee Update: All our bees have been moved into positions for wintering. They are in great health and have full boxes of honey to keep them fed through the colder months. Happy wintering bees!

25/02/2025

Bees have 5 eyes! Compared to the human eye which perceives movements separated by 1/50th of a second, bees can detect movements separated by 1/300th of a second. A movie would appear to a bee as a very slow slideshow.

25/02/2025

Our bees are back closer to home busy collecting pollen and honey from the Brittle Gum and Apple Box trees found up in the slopes. Brittle Gum pollen helps stimulate brood-rearing in preparation for the wintering of hives.

06/02/2025

Bee Fact: An average beehive can hold around 50,000 bees