Published - 31 October 2023 By Nadine Chapman, Professional Beekeepers CoP Who is Professional Beekeepers for? The Professional Beekeepers Community of Practice has been established to meet the needs of rural and regional Australians for the extension of beekeeping knowledge and … Read More biosecurity, breeding, hive management, Plan bee, queen bees, varroa 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 - 21 July 2023 By Nadine Chapman, University of Sydney Should you use antibiotics to treat your hive? In Australia it is permissible to use oxytetracycline to treat European foulbrood. A prescription from a veterinarian is required, and factsheets are available on how … Read More antibiotics, European foulbrood, microbiome, oxytetracycline Agrichemicals, Biosecurity, Code of Practice, Managing your hives, Pests and diseases
Published - 19 June 2023 By Michael Holmes, University of Sydney How does Varroa spread between hives, and what can we do about it? While we are hoping for a successful eradication of Varroa in New South Wales, beekeepers should prepare for the possibility of living with the pest. … Read More biosecurity, drift, robbing, varroa Biosecurity, Code of Practice, Managing your hives, Pests and diseases
Published - 22 December 2022 By Nadine Chapman and Sam Walkom Plan Bee evaluations: what colonies, traits, and when? Plan Bee is Australia’s honey bee genetic improvement program. Participating bee breeders will perform colony evaluations and submit the data to the database. Once there is … Read More bee biosecurity code of practice, breeding, breeding objective, colony inspection, disease, EBV, pest, Plan bee, traits Breeding, Code of Practice, Pests and diseases, Plan Bee, Uncategorized
Published - 10 November 2021 By Rod Bourke, NSW DPI Australian beekeepers need to regularly check for exotic mites Australian honey industry at risk from exotic mites The majority of Australian beekeepers are completely unskilled and unprepared should mites arrive to our shores and start … Read More alcohol wash, biosecurity, hive inspections, sugar shake, Tropilaelaps, varroa Biosecurity, Code of Practice, Managing your hives, Pests and diseases, Policy and compliance
Published - 31 October 2021 By Mark Page, NSW DPI Nuisance bees With a growth in the keeping of bees especially in high residential areas, there are a few things to consider so that your bees do … Read More aggression, breeding, light, queens, requeening, swarming, water Code of Practice, Managing your hives, Policy and compliance
Published - 27 September 2021 By Kelly Lees, NSW DPI One hive or too many to count: Why pest and disease training matters A experienced beekeeper (20 years of keeping bees) attending training in honey bee biosecurity described to the class how after inspecting some hives and discovering … Read More American foulbrood, biosecurity, disease, European foulbrood, training Biosecurity, Code of Practice, Managing your hives, Pests and diseases, Policy and compliance, Training & resources
Published - 2 July 2021 By Elizabeth Frost Record-keeping for bee biosecurity and production Biosecurity is everyone’s responsibility, including beekeepers, but what is biosecurity and how does it help our honey bees? According to the Department of Health, biosecurity … Read More biosecurity, code of practise, hive inspection, record keeping Biosecurity, Code of Practice, Managing your hives
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 … Read More 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 - 5 March 2021 By Nadine Chapman Hive inspections Under the Australian honey bee industry biosecurity code of practice beekeepers are required to inspect their hives at least twice per year and to keep … Read More American foulbrood, biosecurity, code of practise, hive inspections, hive movements, mites, records, varroa Biosecurity, Code of Practice, Managing your hives, Pests and diseases, Policy and compliance, Registration, Training & resources
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 … Read More American foulbrood, European foulbrood, hive management Agrichemicals, Code of Practice, Managing your hives, Nutrition, Pests and diseases
Published - 8 April 2020 By Nadine Chapman BOLT: biosecurity online training About the course A brood frame with a poor brood pattern due to chalkbrood infectionM. V. Smith, University of Guelph The Biosecurity for Beekeepers BOLT course provides … Read More biosecurity, code of practise, policy, training Biosecurity, Code of Practice, Pests and diseases, Policy and compliance, Training & resources
