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What is happening with Varroa in New Zealand?
John Mackay has heard many anecdotes around varroa this season, and a new group will form to try and help answer some key questions...
John Mackay
Jun 1, 20222 min read


Varroa Diaries: Damage Likely Lessened This Autumn
This time last year beehives were dying in much larger numbers than usual in several North Island regions. So, what's the situation now?...
Patrick Dawkins
Mar 31, 20223 min read


Col Loss at a Glance…
John Mackay looks at the Colony Loss Survey results released recently and asks, should we be alarmed?...
John Mackay
Mar 30, 20223 min read


Varroa Diaries: Flanders & Moffett – A Numbers Game
We learn how one Hawke's Bay business is playing the numbers game to control varroa, by limiting brood boxes and hives per apiary...
Patrick Dawkins
Mar 2, 20223 min read


Varroa Diaries: Gazzabee Honey – Five Treatments a Year
We begin a new series of stories cataloguing beekeepers’ efforts to best manage varroa in their hives. First up, Gazzabees Honey...
Patrick Dawkins
Feb 2, 20223 min read


Queens and Varroa Control - We have an open window NOW
If you’re procrastinating or tired from a busy season, you may need to act fast, warns Andrew Stratford in this month's Management Matters..
Andrew Stratford
Feb 2, 20223 min read


Under the Microscope: Mitigating Varroa
This month, we look at some new pieces of work on ways of potentially mitigating some of the effects of varroa...
John Mackay
Jan 2, 20223 min read


AI Tech Offers Gentle Mite Monitoring
An invention out of Sweden hopes to make the task of counting mites and interpreting the data easier – by using artificial intelligence...
Patrick Dawkins
Nov 30, 20215 min read


Resistance Explained, Beekeepers Urged to Act
Despite beekeepers voicing concerns for several years, varroa’s genetic resistance to miticide treatments in New Zealand has not yet been...
Patrick Dawkins
Aug 3, 20215 min read
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