Beekeeping News
A curated selection of worldwide feeds related around the topic of beekeeping and honeybees.
Thymol-containing miticides offer many advantages (no mite resistance or wax-soluble residues) but must be used properly to be effective. Temperatures are critical, and high brood levels may negatively influence treatment efficacy. If you're going to use them, understand their limitations.
International Experts Corroborate 15-to-20-Million-Year-Old Honeycomb with Trapped Scavengers found in Dominican Amber by Hermann Dittrich, NaturalAmber.com BUENA VISTA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — A newly documented fossil specimen of an intact stingless beehive architecture preserved in natural Dominican…
by Geoff Williams June 24, 2026 Today, the U.S. Beekeeping Survey released its annual colony loss estimates for American honey bee colonies from April 2025 to April 2026. Led by Auburn University, in collaboration with Oregon State University and the Apiary Inspectors of America, the national survey…
The Rules on the Quality and Labeling of Honey will come into force on 14 June 2026. The key change, which transposes Directive (EU) 2024/1438, relates to the more precise labeling of the origin of honey blends. Instead of the current wording “blend of EU and non-EU honeys,” the packer w…
A Portrait of the American Beekeeper Who they are, Why they do it, and What keeps them going By Mirza Tihic | Syracuse University You want to understand a beekeeper? Don’t start with the honey. Don’t start with the hives. Start with this: most of them are losing money, most of them knew they wo…
New commercial-beekeeping industry group Honey and Bees New Zealand (H&BNZ) has an inaugural board and chairperson, Murray Bush, who says the serious business of rebuilding trust among beekeepers begins now. Beekeepers must return that trust though he emphasises, and support he group if it is to…
Creditors have tipped Brown family companies Springbank Honey Ltd and Glenburn Green Ltd, both of North Canterbury, into receivership. Debts include more than two million dollars outstanding to beekeepers for honey. The list of those waiting to be paid is long but asset sales may be complicated by p…
While many around New Zealand beekeeping circles have viewed the news of Springbank Honey’s forced receivership (as detailed in Springbank Honey Forced to Receivership, Beekeepers Owed Millions) with a “good riddance” response, for some it is not as simple as that. At least six beekeeping or honey b…
At Mānuka Orchard’s annual Open Day for 2026, July 24 in Paengaroa, Bay of Plenty, the do-it-all honey facility unveiled their vision for the future of the mānuka honey industry. Dubbed ‘Project 2030’, it seeks to marry new-found optimism in honey markets with the organisation required to better mat…
After a highly eventful six years on first the board of the American Foulbrood (AFB) Management Agency and then seeing through its transition to the New Zealand Bee Health and Biosecurity Trust (NZBB) as chairperson, Mark Dingle recently departed the seat, replaced by Simon Cook. He reflects on a mu…
Takeaways from Mānuka Orchard Open Day 2026 It’s become a staple on the honey industry’s calendar and in 2026 Mānuka Orchard’s annual Open Day on July 24, was bigger than ever, with nearly 200 attendees filing into the Paengaroa Community Hall where a range of speakers and trade displays greeted the…
Some honey industry observers appear to believe that the mānuka boom was an historical event. Recent trade data don’t support that conclusion. Non-traditional markets such as Saudi Arabia and South Korea have rocketed to top-10 status by value. Elsewhere, the dark horse of Romania is in the ascendan…
It’s fast getting to that time of year again, when hives are being opened for the first time coming out of winter – a winter featuring New Zealand’s warmest June on record. Many beekeeping tasks await in the next few months, but prime among them is ensuring the queen at the heart of each colony is f…
While yellow-legged hornets have disappeared from sight for winter, New Zealand's response isn’t over yet. Biosecurity New Zealand and the bee sector are now turning their attention to keeping awareness alive, launching a proposed Hornet Champions network to help ensure vigilance doesn't fade before…
Slow-release oxalic acid (OA) strips are for use on colonies rearing brood, in contrast to one-shot trickled or vaporised OA. Are they an effective solution for winter treatment when predicting broodlessness can be tricky, and when climate change is making it increasingly rare?
An Overview of Common Neophyte Beekeeper Questions and Issues Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: James E. Tew Driving a car and keeping beesInitiating and developing beekeeping skills is much like learning to d…
Become A Better Beekeeper Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: David Burns Many beekeepers probably feel that raising queens is out of reach and best left for large-scale, commercial beekeepers with decades of ex…
Happy Birthday USA Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Richard Wahl On this 250th birthday of the United States I thought I would present something a bit different. Rather than more information on beekeeping, wh…
Part 1 Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Ross Conrad While yellow-legged hornets and reduced oversight and regulation of pesticides and pollution at the EPA are a couple of the latest concerns that have potent…
Esquire Time Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Dr. Tracy Farone While I am certainly not a lawyer, most of us (usually unfortunately) must be aware of laws that affect our professions in order to avoid legal l…
For the Love of Field Days Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Becky Masterman Beekeeping meetings are energizing and informative. Add live colonies and demonstrations to a meeting and you have something special…
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Bottlenecks are the bane of a beekeeper’s existence. Just when you think you’ve solved one, another appears. “It sure would be nice to have an automated uncappe…
Tracking Tropi Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Jay Evans After millennia of infesting Asian honey bee colonies, Tropilaelaps mites discovered they could survive and thrive in colonies of the western honey be…
General manager of leading supply company to beekeepers, New Zealand Beeswax, Nick Taylor recently sat down with Apiarist’s Advocate editor Patrick Dawkins as the first-ever in-person guest on the Apiarist’s Advocate Pod podcast. Topics discussed were as diverse as bee gut health, varroa control met…
Soon the beekeeping truck will be clocking up scores of hours every week in the Bay of Plenty, in the meantime Aimz goes right back to the start, reflecting on a lifetime of adventure and misadventure of a family hitting (sometimes literally) the highways and by-ways of life and beekeeping.
Blanche Murray is the founder and director of Kai Ora Honey, a beekeeping and honey exporting business based in Awanui in the far North, and a director to Te Pitau Ltd, the operating arm of the Mānuka Charitable Trust. With a free trade agreement (FTA) with India signed and soon to be in force, she …
Jason Price discusses his journey to register his home kitchen as well as the privacy aspect of this.
Hanging over the head of all New Zealanders is the unavoidable fact that we have an ageing population forcing rising superannuation costs. So why are so many politicians ignoring it? Ian Fletcher sets the table for a much-needed “mature” discussion.
By: Jake Zajkowski Twenty years ago, trailers of commercial beehives movedthrough Ohio to pollinateanything with a flower. Their stops included the state’s orchards, forage operations and David Paynter’s buckwheat fields. In late Summer during the crop’s bloom, Paynter hired commercial beekeepers wh…
American Apple Honey Pie By: Granny Ruth Bake: 425°FTime: 1 HourServings: 8 Slices of Pie Please enjoy this classic apple pie recipe from Granny’s kitchen, with a honey and American themed twist! Ingredients□ 1 Pre-made Pie Crust (Pillsbury Ready-to-Bake)□ 6 Apples (Honeycrisp, Granny Smith, etc. Ap…