On Saturday I became the proud owner of a hive of native stingless bees, Trigona carbonaria.
Damo had done some web-searching and found that Tim Heard, a CSIRO entomologist and native bee specialist, supplies colonies and his brother, Frank, makes specially designed hives for them.
Stingless bees and honeybees happily co-exist. Happily Brisbane provides an ideal climate for stingless bees which are a tropical species.
