Agrichemicals

Published - 24 June 2021
By Professional Beekeepers CoP

Professional Beekeepers Community of Practice

“ExtensionAUS Professional Beekeepers” provides the most current, relevant and accurate information on research, best beekeeping practices, hot topics and business solutions for the Australian beekeeping …
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Agrichemicals, Beekeeping on public land, Biosecurity, Breeding, Code of Practice, Disaster relief, Genetics, Honey, Managing your hives, Nutrition, Pests and diseases, Plan Bee, Policy and compliance, Pollination, Registration, Training & resources

Published - 2 October 2020
By Nadine Chapman

Avocado pollination

Smashed avocado on toast has revolutionised breakfast and even been blamed for younger generations being unable to buy a house.
Avocado production has risen from …
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alternative pollinators, avocado, nectar foragers, pollination

Agrichemicals, Managing your hives, Pollination

Published - 18 September 2020
By Nadine Chapman

Why you should use Australian beeswax

The Australian Honey Bee Industry Council (AHBIC) recently released a statement regarding the importation of beeswax. Testing of some imported beeswax has shown that it …
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beehive products, candles, cosmetics, food, fungicide, miticide, paraffin, pesticide, soy, wax

Agrichemicals, Managing your hives, Policy and compliance

A honey bee pollen forager on almond blossoms.

Published - 15 September 2020
By Elizabeth Frost, NSW Department of Primary Industries

Fungicides and their effects on honey bees

The largest migration of livestock in Australia is upon us as almond bloom finishes and over 220,000 bee hives, some 6 trillion bees (give or …
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agrichemicals, almonds, apple, canola, fungicides, pear, pesticides, pollination

Agrichemicals, Managing your hives, Pollination

Published - 7 August 2020
By Nadine Chapman

European Foulbrood

European foulbrood is a bacterial disease caused by Melissococcus plutonius. It is highly contagious. The brood are infected by food contaminated with the bacterium. The …
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American foulbrood, European foulbrood, hive management

Agrichemicals, Code of Practice, Managing your hives, Nutrition, Pests and diseases

Published - 15 May 2020
By Nadine Chapman

B-QUAL – ensuring food safety standards

B-QUAL Australia was established by the Australian Honey Bee Industry Council in 2002 with the aim that 90% of honey production be quality assured for …
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B-QUAL, food safety standards, honey

Agrichemicals, Managing your hives, Policy and compliance, Training & resources

Published - 4 December 2019
By Nadine Chapman

Screened bottom boards

Varroa has not yet established in Australia. In the advent that it does establish, beekeepers need to be aware of the available control methods. Chemical …
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hive management, screened bottom boards, varroa

Agrichemicals, Biosecurity, Honey, Managing your hives, Pests and diseases

Some of the foods pollinated by honey bees

Published - 11 November 2019
By Nadine Chapman

Australian pollinator week

This week is devoted to celebrating pollinators. Pollinators include: bees, flies, wasps, moths, butterflies, bats and other small mammals, and birds.
According to an AgriFutures Australia …
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agriculture, Agrifutures Australia, BeeAware, crop guides, Hort Innovation, pollination, Pollinator week

Agrichemicals, Beekeeping on public land, Biosecurity, Code of Practice, Nutrition, Pests and diseases, Pollination

Published - 16 September 2019
By Nadine Chapman

Honey testing: more to the story

Laboratory testing of honey.Source: http://www.chemcentre.wa.gov.au/Our-Services/Primary-Industry-chemistry/Honey-analysis
There have been a few media reports about honey adulteration in Australia in the past year. This has resulted in a …
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acacia, banksia, bioactive honey, honey, honey standards, leatherwood, Leptospermum, NMR, red gum, supplementary feeding

Agrichemicals, Code of Practice, Honey, Managing your hives, Nutrition, Policy and compliance

Published - 4 July 2019
By Nadine Chapman, University of Sydney

Almond pollination: hive management

Every year in August over 200,000 bee colonies are taken to New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia to pollinate more than 30,000 hectares (Almond …
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almonds, biosecurity, hive management, pollination

Agrichemicals, Biosecurity, Code of Practice, Managing your hives, Pests and diseases, Policy and compliance, Pollination