The Colony Loss Survey can be a source of data, thus knowledge and therefor power to beekeepers striving for best management writes Darre...

Fancy taking on a leading queen bee breeding programme? After 18 years of striving to improve bee genetics, Betta Bees is up for sale...

Is there a more accurate way to define New Zealand’s – and potentially the World’s – honey varieties? Esteemed honeybee scientist Dr Mark...

Beekeepers in many regions of both North and South Islands, are dealing with the effects of historic levels of flooding in August...

Imagine being forced to burn all of your beehives due to AFB infection. Then imagine having to do it again...

Inspired by a presentation from Meat the Need founder Wayne Langford, Raglan beekeepers Hannah & Rory O’Brien hope to support beekeepers...

“Sustainability” – there’s a lot of noise about the global movement these days, but how do beekeepers stack up when it comes to achieving...

As beekeepers we know how to pick AFB, but are you as clued up on the traits of the two nosemas? Spring Dwindling Disease can be devasta...

It’s “long-distance riding, bugs, eccentric people and … pure contentment” as we once again tag along with “Jesse” James Corson on his epic.

John Trevena is a man dedicated to improving beekeeping knowledge, & recently communicating with fellow beekeepers got profoundly easier...

Following on from last month's dip into beekeeping history and the race to land hives in NZ, we follow the dispersal of honeybees around...

There are plenty of easy ways beekeepers can help themselves, so why are they not making the effort?