The Australasian Beekeeper Magazine

Mushroom Extract Might Rescue Bees from Deadly Virus

Right now, the mycelium extract isn’t currently available in levels for beekeepers to purchase for their hives. ìWe are ramping up production of the extracts as rapidly as is feasible, given the hurdles we must overcome to deploy this on a wide...

20 hours ago

By The ABK Team

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Managing Hives to Minimise Damage from Small Hive Beetle

Articles

This past season has seen a large increase in the numbers of Small hive beetle (Shb) observed within beehives in many areas. There have been many reports of Shb forcing colonies to abscond and the hives taken over and slimed out. This has...

13 Apr 2024

By The ABK Team

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Thinking Outside The Box: World Leading Autonomus Beehive

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“We go out to the fields, and we see those white wooden boxes, the current beehives, and we tend to romanticise them, and we think they are the natural habitat of the bee - they’re not, they are man-made”, said Saar Safra, CEO of BeeWise

11 Apr 2024

By The ABK Team

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Tasting Leatherwood Honey & Celebrating Tasmanian Beekeeper

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The busiest time of the year for Honey Sommeliers can often be in the Winter months. While beekeepers and their bees have packed down for the cooler months, attention switches to updating honey tasting notes for recent months’ harvests, attending...

06 Apr 2024

By The ABK Team

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01 Jan 2024

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Beekeeping Basics- How to light a smoker

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Lighting the smoker and keeping it lit seems to be a major problem to many beekeepers. Interestingly, lighting and maintaining a cool smoke in a smoker is all about physics and camp-fire skills, more so than beekeeping! In this video, we’ll show you...

01 May 2023

By The ABK Team

Mushroom Extract Might Rescue Bees from Deadly Virus

Managing Hives to Minimise Damage from Small Hive Beetle

Can Wax Moth Help Solve the Problem of Plastic Waste?

News and Letters

The tiny waxworm went from zero to hero in 2017 when researchers discovered the caterpillar could potentially help solve one of the worldís most pressing environmental problems: plastic waste. The creature can chomp through plastic, even...

15 Apr 2024

By The ABK Team

News and Letters

Pesticides Damage the Brains of Baby Bumblebees, New Research Finds

News and Letters

Pesticides, along with the climate crises and declining habitat, have been blamed for the declining numbers of bumblebees in Europe. And in a new study published, scientists examined exactly how bumblebees are affected by pesticides by scanning...

16 Apr 2024

By The ABK Team