Sri Govindaraju

Kanuka Honey Researcher Answers the Big Questions

In 2020 The Experiment Company (TEC) was founded and set out to better understand the qualities of kanuka honey. Now, they are nearing...

Patrick Dawkins

RMP Audit Changes Are No Guaranteed Win

After more than four years of campaigning, beekeepers holding RMPs for their honey facilities got a hard-fought-for win recently...

Patrick Dawkins

Managing the AFB Risk in Second-hand Gear

As New Zealand’s registered beehives reduce from a peak of nearly one million to closer to half of that number, a lot of the beekeeping...

Patrick Dawkins

Big Burn Off in Canterbury

In October several commercial beekeepers assisted the Management Agency in destroying thousands of hives...

Patrick Dawkins

Championing Ladies in Apiculture

Having recently published her findings on women in apiculture, Sol Tejada joins us to field a few more questions...

beth180

Stowers – Drumming up Beekeeper Partnerships

ADVERTORIAL: STOWERS Beekeepers never know exactly when the honey is going to start flowing, or how much will come flowing in. With that...

Maggie James

Confessions of an AP2 – Danger and the Military

For approximately 15 years Maggie James was an AP2 hive inspector in Canterbury, mainly conducting exotic surveillance. These are some of...

Patrick Dawkins

Hot Stuff

Varroa is a growing problem for beekeepers the world over says Vatorex founder and CEO Pascal Brunner and so the Swiss company has...

Patrick Dawkins

Ombudsman Fails to Uphold Beekeeper Complaints

Honeylands Naturally, a Wanaka honey packing business specialising in single servings, has had their protest against MPI's fees denied...

Dave Black

Intelligent Apiculture

With ‘Artificial Intelligence’ playing an increasingly prominent role in our lives, we ask our resident science writer Dave Black about...

Ian Fletcher

Foreign Affairs

This week has seen two events of notable significance. The first was the publication of the new Government’s 100-day plan, the second...

Patrick Dawkins

Splitting Doubles on the Double

Inside Pyramid Apiaries is a monthly look into operations at the Marlborough beekeeping business of 400 production hives, and 400 mating...