Monthly Meetings

To help prevent its spread and to protect the beekeeping community from the COVID-19 virus, the VAA Melbourne Section face-to-face monthly meetings have been replaced by on-line ZOOM meetings until further notice.

Zoom Meeting on Thursday 24th September 2020

Agenda Theme: Pollination

Past Meeting:

Zoom Meeting on Thursday 27th August 2020

Agenda Theme: Swarm Prevention and Collection

• Beginners' Corner will commence at 7:30 pm 

• The presentations will be followed by questions and discussions.

• 8:30 Understanding of Bee Biology by Hunter-gatherers in Southern India
  

• 9:15 Reports and Bees in the News
  
• 9:30 The meeting will conclude with the random selection of the winner of the door prize which will be a $20 shopping voucher.

The meeting will be recorded.

Procedures and information given at this meeting are not necessarily endorsed nor recommended by the Victorian Apiarists Association Inc nor its Melbourne Section.

To join the meeting (video and audio)

• Click here to read detailed instructions about joining and participating in the meeting
  
• You will need to register for the meeting. Preferably, this should be done before the meeting starts. You can also register after the meeting has started. 
• To register, click on this link: 

  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvfu2ppjMjHNaEIT0leD4qfH2RX8sG7B5R

  After registering, you will receive a confirmation email which will contain a link to the meeting.
• The meeting will have a wait room. 
• To participate in the meeting, you will need to have your first and last name shown. If this is not shown, you will be asked to show it.
• During the meeting you will be asked to mute your microphone unless the meeting chair allows you to speak. This will mean that there will be no background sound to interfer with the meeting's proceedings

To join by phone (audio only)

Collingwood Children's Farm Apiary

Until further notice the Collingwood Children’s Farm apiary will no longer be open to the public, including beekeepers’ inspecting hives, on the scheduled second and fourth Sunday of each month.