Nutrition

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 - 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 - 22 June 2020
By Patsavee Utaipanon

Is one food source good enough? Effects of monoculture on honey bees

Nothing is as Australian as Vegemite on toast, but what if that was all you ate for every meal, every day?
If that doesn’t sound very …
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diet diversity, mononoculture, nutrition, pollination, remnant vegetation, weeds

Managing your hives, Nutrition, Pollination

Published - 30 April 2020
By Nadine Chapman

Nutrition for honey bees

Honey bees eat nectar (carbohydrates) and pollen (protein). Simple. But we can make it more complex: amino acids, fats, minerals and vitamins.
Carbohydrates
Colonies will perish within …
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carbohydrate, diet, fat, minerals, nutrition, pollen, protein, supplements, vitamins

Managing your hives, Nutrition

Published - 17 March 2020
By Nadine Chapman (University of Sydney)

To feed or not to feed? Part 2. The importance of nutrition to disease

Honey bee populations have declined in many parts of the globe, with pests and diseases being a major cause. An Agrifutures Australia project, led by …
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autumn, hive management, nosema, nutrition, pollen

Managing your hives, Nutrition, Pests and diseases

Published - 13 March 2020
By Nadine Chapman

Hive management for Nosema

Nosemosis is a disease of honey bees caused by the parasites Nosema apis and N. ceranae. Nosemosis often affects adult field bees which can reduce …
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autumn, biosecurity, hive management, nosema, winter

Managing your hives, Nutrition, Pests and diseases, Policy and compliance

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 - 28 October 2019
By Liz Frost, Dr Doug Somerville

“Honey and Pollen Flora of South-Eastern Australia” – read all about it

Honey and Pollen Flora of South-Eastern Australia is a long-awaited publication written by Dr. Doug Somerville, Technical Specialist, Bees with the NSW Department of Primary …
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acacia, angophora, corymbia, eucalyptus, honey, leatherwood, pollen

Beekeeping on public land, Honey, Managing your hives, Nutrition, 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 - 12 September 2019
By Nadine Chapman

Spring management

Spring has sprung, and it is time for beekeepers to spring into action to ensure a good season.
Early spring inspections

Is there a laying queen?
Is there …
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chalkbrood, hive management, honey, queen bees, spring, supplementary feeding, swarming

Breeding, Managing your hives, Nutrition, Pests and diseases

Published - 23 August 2019
By Nadine Chapman, Dr Doug Somerville

To feed or not to feed

By definition honey is a “natural sweet substance produced by honey bees from the nectar of blossoms … which honey bees collect, transform and combine …
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biosecurity, hive management, nosema, nutrition, pollen, sugar, supplementary feeding

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

Published - 19 August 2019
By Nadine Chapman

Chalkbrood

The fungus Ascosphaera apis causes chalkbrood disease in honey bees. The disease occurs in honey bee larvae fed fungal spores by nurse bees. The spores …
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barrier management, chalkbrood, hive management, spring