February 2009

•   Gaps in the AUSTVETPLAN
   
• Editorial Notes

• Copy deadlines
• www.theabk.com.au
• Dates for 2009 Conferences
• Apis cerana nest found - the last one?
• AHBIC Executive Contact Numbers
• Irish College teams with American Company to produce synthetic 'Manuka Factor'
• International Honey Laundering
• Massive crackdown in EU on the use of scores of toxic pesticides

• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Re: 'Better Bees - Opportunity Knocks'
• Re: The Sting In the Tale
• Re: Today, Tonight

• IN THE APIARY

• New Direction For The Minnesota Hygienic Line of Bees

• AFB Inspections

• Stolen beehive material recovered.

• Obituary

• Mervyn James Shea

• BEES AND PROTEIN

• The Cost of Not Feeding Enough Protein (A Warning)
• Bee Forage & Nutrition

• Book Review: 'The Buzz About Bees - Biology of a Superorganism'

• The World Honey Market - Trade Issues

• APIFORESTATION

• Carbon Footprinting - 'the next big thing' for our industry?

• The First Full Accounting of Colony Collapse Disorder

• A Closer Look At Honey bee Sperm Survival

• The Honeybee Crisis: Paradoxical Findings Deepen the Mystery

• BEGINNING IN BEES

• Chapter 5. DISEASES and PESTS
• Part 269 A Few Introductory Factors - Definitions
• Part 269(a) A Few Introductory Factors - An Overview
• Part 269(b) Cyclic Occurrences

• BEEKEEPERS' ASSOCIATIONS