What to Learn from Cyclone Gabrielle?
Ian Fletcher looks into how we can better prepare for, and react to, extreme weather events...
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Chris Northcott
- Mar 4
- 4 min
Auckland Flooding Soaks Hives and Club HQ
Auckland Beekeeping Club President Steve Leslie took a break from attending hives on a rare cloudless morning to talk floods...
David Cramp
- Mar 4
- 7 min
Volcanic Eruptions, Tsunamis and the Volunteer Beekeeper
Carterton beekeeper David Cramp’s three-decade long career in apiculture has taken him around the globe, most recently on volunteer work...
Maggie James
- Mar 4
- 6 min
The Scientist Opening Doors to Beekeeping Diversity
Maggie James discusses the comprehensive career of beekeeping-scientist Ronald van Toor, who helped pave the way for the live honey bee...
Dave Black
- Mar 4
- 6 min
Amitraz – A Successful Mite Killer, But No Free Lunch
Amitraz, the active chemical in popular varroa treatments Apivar and Apitraz, has become a staple in New Zealand beekeeper’s pest...
Patrick Dawkins
- Mar 4
- 2 min
Calling on Kānuka Samples
With kānuka honey flowing into drums in recent months, The Experiment Company has renewed their call for beekeepers to supply honey sample..
Patrick Dawkins
- Jan 31
- 6 min
AFB Dogs Research Debate Goes Around in Circles
A Research paper into the ability of dogs to detect AFB was published recently, but will it be enough to give the AFB PMP Agency confidence?
Stu Ferguson
- Jan 31
- 4 min
Time for AFB Agency to Cost-Analyse New Tech
Wairarapa beekeeper and ApiNZ board member Stu Ferguson is an innovator, and has been thinking over a new plan for tackling AFB...
Patrick Dawkins
- Jan 31
- 3 min
New AFB Vaccine, But Not for NZ
Approval of an AFB vaccine in the USA has given beekeepers there another option in protecting honey bees, but is it any use to NZ?
Patrick Dawkins
- Jan 31
- 5 min
The 24 Million Dollar Question
The question is perhaps akin to ‘how long is a piece of string?’, but Colony Loss scientist Pike Stahlmann-Brown and a team of commercial...
Patrick Dawkins
- Jan 31
- 1 min
MHAS Withdraws Appeal, Circles the Wagons
The group representing the New Zealand honey industry’s bid to gain exclusive use of the term “mānuka honey”, is rethinking its approach...
Darren Bainbridge
- Jan 31
- 3 min
Beekeeping Takeaways from North America’s Conference Season
MyApiary general manager Darren Bainbridge recently returned from the North American beekeeping conference season, here's what he learned...
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