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Poland, the Only Country Where Instrumentally Inseminated Queens are Routinely Used in Commercial Production

Poland is unique in that instrumentally inseminated queens, IIQs, are commonly used in production hives, as well as for breeding purposes. Annually, an estimated 50,000 to 80,000 IIQs are produced and sold by commercial queen breeders to beekeepers...

By The ABK Team

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...

By The ABK Team

Managing Hives to Minimise Damage from Small Hive Beetle

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...

By The ABK Team

Thinking Outside The Box: World Leading Autonomus Beehive

“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

By The ABK Team

Tasting Leatherwood Honey & Celebrating Tasmanian Beekeeper

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...

By The ABK Team

A Closer Look - Tropilaelaps Mites

Varroa (left) & Tropilaelaps (right) A potential future threat of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) in North America are the parasitic mites in the genus Tropilaelaps which are currently confined to Asia and bordering areas. These mites are...

By The ABK Team

Handy Hints for Extracting Honey for Beginners

Congratulations, you have successfully taken off supers of capped honey from your bees, and it is time to do your first extraction. Set up your uncapping devices be they electric, hot water, steam-heated knives, or other ‘cold’ uncapping...

By The ABK Team

Minimising Honey Bee Impacts on Nesting Boxes and Hollows

Introduction: Swarming Honey Bees and Nesting Boxes and Hollows European honey bees swarm as a natural reproductive process. They also swarm if their hive is overcrowded, as often happens when the onset of warmer spring weather from August until...

By The ABK Team

Recent Research The State of Our Industry Regarding Varroa Management and What can we do About it?

The EPA must take into account the risk to the applicator involved with the application of any pesticide. But unlike a farmer who can spray a product onto their crop from the safety of the cab of an air-conditioned tractor, the beekeeper must apply...

By The ABK Team

Keeping Hives Healthy to Handle Varroa

In the months after the initial Varroa detection in June 2022, I proposed heading over the ditch to New Zealand that October to look at their Varroa Spring management practices. Whilst the idea had merit, it was definitely not the right time to go...

By The ABK Team

A Closer Look - Impact of Fungicides on Honeybees

Almond growers face constant challenges to crop productivity owing to pests and pathogens, which are often controlled with a multitude of agrochemicals. There is growing evidence that insecticides and acaricides (miticides) are not the only...

By The ABK Team

For New Beekeepers!

Ed. Note: this is a new section for The ABK. Bob Gulliford (Editor February, 1991 ñ December, 2007) did include a section in The ABK titled Beginning in Bees, but with the surge in interest beekeeping, I as Editor have decided to try and include...

By The ABK Team

Study Finds Honeybee Venom Rapidly Kills Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells

Venom from honeybees has been found to rapidly kill aggressive and hard-to-treat breast cancer cells, according to potentially ground-breaking new Australian research. The study also found when the venom’s main component was combined with existing...

By The ABK Team

Butt Snorkles and Bug Chowder

Do I have your attention? We will get to the butt snorkels, but first, we need a primer in insect respiration... How do insects breathe? Like us, insects breathe oxygen, and their respiratory system is required to deliver sufficient oxygen to...

By The ABK Team

Swapping in Honey Bees

In this concluding Part IV of ‘Swarming in Honey Bees’, we examine less conventional control measures that, once mastered, present opportunities to further turn the swarming impulse to good advantage. We start here where we left off in Part III...

By The ABK Team

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