There's plenty of strings to West Coast beekeeper Derek Johnson's bow and so intrepid reporter Maggie James visits the keen outdoorsman...

"Print Reads", Apiarist's Advocate's sleek printed magazine is off to the printers soon. Do you have your order in? Get it in time for Ch...

Aussies aren’t best pleased about their most recent biosecurity incursion not for the danger it might pose inside a hive, but because it...

In Dunedin their exists a club working in harmony with the community, and helping reduce cases of reported AFB to zero in the last 6 months.

Recently the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) released its Apiculture Monitoring Data for 2022, you may have seen some analysis of...

While beekeepers across New Zealand struggle as honey prices sit below the cost of production, some face loss of their best hive sites...

The Department of Conservation oversees approximately 8-million hectares of New Zealand’s land, much of it valuable for the purpose of...

Now, as much as ever, the issue of capturing maximum value for New Zealand’s range of honey varieties is front of industry discussions...

John Syme's contribution to beekeeping has not just been in the hives and the Syme name is also associated with honey extraction and...

Frances Beech is down to two hives now – a standard Langstroth and a 30-frame long-bar – where there once was 20...

Print Reads is back this December! Find out what you can expect in Apiarist's Advocate's second printed magazine in 2022 and how to order...

Much the same way we’ve had Alpha, Delta and Omicron variants of the COVID-19 virus, DWV has two major strains. John Mackay explains them..