Elke provides a limited number of hand made hives of Native stingless bees for purchase for locating in coastal parts of Sydney each spring.

The native stingless bees are called Tetragonula carbonaria and are native to the Sydney Basin (and are also found in coastal areas of NSW and Qld). Elke’s native bees are acclimatised to the Sydney coastal climatic seasons as the bees are bred here in Sydney.

Stingless bees are not suited to the western or elevated areas of the Sydney Basin due to temperature extremes being too great for Tetragonula to survive. Even in more coastal locations in Sydney, the siting of the hive is very important to ensure good temperature regulation.