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 - 20 July 2022 By Erica Mo, University of Sydney Sacbrood Sacbrood is a disease impacting honey bees caused by a virus. Sacbrood mostly impacts brood and is correlated with stressed or weakened colonies. It causes … Read More breeding, disease, hygienic behaviour, resistance, sacbrood, selection, virus Breeding, Pests and diseases
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
