Curious as to the motivation, remuneration and hours required to be an administrator of Backyard Beekeeping NZ’s Facebook page, we meet admi

Swarming is how hives reproduce, it has been an essential part of bees lives for millennia. It is, however, not an essential part of beekeep

Ahead of an upcoming series on breeding bees for varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH), science writer Dave Black summarises where we've got to...

The New Zealand honey industry is in "deep crisis for survival", stabilisation will take "several years", the United States has overtaken...

"Enthusiasm is contagious ... Something is catching, but what exactly?" The buzz of Aimz's new career is rubbing off on others...

Col Loss Survey author Pike Stahlmann-Brown gives beekeepers who haven’t yet completed the survey this gentle nudge, just weeks out from the

Having sold up his beekeeping business of “many” years, James Corson has headed north to “see what the rest of the world is doing."...

UMFHA explain their promotional concept "New Zealand Mānuka Honey Day", celebrated November 4...

Looming over a seriously depressed mānuka honey market is what has variously been described as a honey “oversupply’, “stockpile, “surplus”.

While the New Zealand Honey industry bandies about vast ranges for potential honey inventory volumes, Bruce Roscoe explores how...

Where Comvita goes, many beekeepers go, and when they cancelled supply contracts with beekeepers in 2021-22 it sent some out of business...

There will be a new honey testing lab opening its doors this summer, as The Experiment Company (TEC) moves its kanuka ( Kunzea ericoides...