Beekeeping News
A curated selection of worldwide feeds related around the topic of beekeeping and honeybees.
What Winter Feeding Can Do For Your Bottom Line By: Anne Marie Fauvel, Honey Bee Vitality, LLC & Dr. Brandon Hopkins, Washington State University Key TakeawayA newly published scientific study — the largest and longest of its kind — demonstrates that feeding honey bee colonies a nutritionally co…
Honey Ginger & Green Tea Stir Fry Sauce By: Danielle DeLuca – Owner of Your Culinary Experience Ingredients□ ¼ Cup White Balsamic Vinegar□ 1 Cup Strong Brewed Ginger Green Tea, roomtemperature (Bigelow brand is preferred)□ 1 tbsp Fresh Ginger, grated□ 2 Cloves of Garlic, grated□ Zest and j…
Why don't foragers collect as much as they can carry when foraging, and why aren't they damaged when crash landing back at the hive entrance? Forager longevity, lead backpacks, kinetic energy and a brief discussion about dropping mice down mineshafts.
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Lost as Interpreted By the Closure of BeltsvilleAgricultural Research Center (BARC) in Maryland By: John Miller Is this closure of a specific facility – charged with fulfilling a broad mandate actually a tragedy? No doubt for the nine full time positions, nine families face relocation to other Feder…
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It's a good time to tidy and secure all the spare boxes, boards, queen excluders, roofs, and frames that have accumulated during the season. Winter storms, rodents, and wax moths will otherwise make a real mess of them … which you'll have to clean up next year.
New Zealand’s long-awaited changes to the National American Foulbrood (AFB) Pest Management Plan are moving towards implementation, with proposed measures including greater transparency of honey test results, compulsory employee training, and stronger compliance tools.
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When and why you should treat with oxalic acid after late-summer use of Apivar. With resistance increasing, an alternate treatment — applied in a timely manner (so not 'sometime in winter') — helps minimise mite levels for the following season.
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By: Charlotte Hubbard & Bob Candido Method OverviewsThirteen colonies, randomly divided into three groups, were employed in the experiment. All colonies had screened bottom boards with slider boards inserted, and a mouse-guard entrance reducer. We also installed feeding shims to allow for the ad…
The winter may feel never-ending, but in person and online talks offer the opportunity to improve your understanding, learn something new, and make the 'off season' seem just a little shorter.
Depending on who you ask, you’ll get different answers on what sustainable beekeeping means and what stand in its way. […] The post Sustainable beekeeping needs both good practices and good policy appeared first on BeeSafe .
One of the country’s largest honey exporters recently became the country’s largest beekeeping entity as Egmont Honey acquired much of the in-Receivership Tweeddale’s Honey of Taihape. It takes their hive holding from approximately 5000 to around 22,000 and the chief executive says they expect to onl…
Evidence submitted by Mānuka Charitable Trust (MCT) to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in the mānuka honey certification trademark case contains promotional website texts that propagate common fictions and have been flagged as generated by artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence... "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"...
Moves are underway to bring the beekeeping clubs of New Zealand together into a national organisation that could provide a better avenue for reaching many of the country’s 7000 hobbyist beekeepers, and create strength in numbers for bee clubs. Led by Auckland Beekeepers Club president Ken Brown, a g…
Just over two months from its launch, Honey and Bees New Zealand (HBNZ) is calling on beekeepers, whether they are members or not, to let their opinions be heard and help shape the new commercial-beekeeper-centric group.
With no new yellow-legged hornet detections since April, Biosecurity New Zealand is stepping up surveillance this spring as the risk of surviving queens emerging from winter increases. Trapping continues, new tracking technology is being introduced, and scientists are trialling freshwater eDNA testi…
On September 10, after five months of planning, the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)-led “Bee Alliance” gathered in Wellington for the first time, bringing together representative groups from most corners of apiculture and even some growers.
In our September edition, we carried a report on the Kānuka Industry Hui held in Rotorua 17-18 August, Kānuka Honey: Time to Stand on Its Own. It was “unmistakable”, the report said, that the “market opportunity” for kānuka honey and kānuka oil was “already there”. Bruce Roscoe discusses “market opp…
Last month New Zealand Manuka Group published something not seen for many years in the New Zealand honey industry, a honey pricing schedule titled “Bee Up Front”. Now chief executive Phil Caskey expands on his and the company’s philosophy and vision for the industry where the UMF brand is better har…
Funding will support PHIRA-Science research on an emerging threat to honey bee colonies   OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. — HONEES, the honey-filled drop brand, has announced a $10,000 grant to support research focused on protecting honey bees from Tropilaelaps, an emerging parasitic mite that is raising c…
Professor Neal Williams of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, a pollinator ecologist internationally recognized for his research on bee and pollination biology, is a newly elected Fellow of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). The ESA Governing Board elected Williams and ei…
New Section 301 tariffs and a shifting import map are colliding with a tight domestic crop, setting up a volatile marketing season for U.S. beekeepers. August 11, 2026 — Steven Coy, President, American Honey Producers Association As the 2026 summer honey crop extraction gets underway, the U.S. honey…
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