May 2009

• Need To Re-Examine Our Approach To Varroa

• Editorial Notes…..

• Copy deadlines
• www.theabk.com.au
• Corrections
• Defence System The Bees Knees
• Cosmetic Superpower L’Oréal Paris Joins Fight To Save Australia’s Honeybees
• Further Apis cerana Found In Cairns
• Protein Content of Pollen
• Scientific American – Article – Saving the Honeybee
• Sticky Times For Leatherwood Honey

• LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• Re: Letters from Don Keith and Elizabeth Taylor 
• Change of Venue For The NSW Apiarists’ Association’s Conference 9^th & 10^th July, 2009

• IN THE APIARY

• Small Hive Beetle In-Hive Control Device using Diatomaceous Earth
• Laying Workers - Question from The ABK website

• RECENT RESEARCH – Here and Overseas

• Bumble Bees Can Estimate Time Intervals
• New Insight Into How Bees See
• Bees Help Scientists Study Addiction

• Pesticides, Bees and Wax
• This Year, Start Your Move To Natural Beekeeping
• Fungicides can reduce pollination potential
• RESEARCH REVIEWED
  

• The Latest in Honey Bee Reseaarch

• A CLOSER LOOK AT CHALKBROOD
• Odours Rule
• FOUNDATION – SHOULD IT BE BEESWAX OR PLASTIC?
• CRACKING THE POLLEN CASE
• Apimondia 2009
• New Certification To Keep Honey Exports Sweet
• BEGINNING IN BEES

• Part 274(j) Viral Diseases – Egyptian Virus
• Part 274(k) Viral Diseases – Kashmir Bee Virus
• Part 274(l) Viral Diseases – Sacbrood
• Part 274(m) Viral Diseases – Bee Virus X
• Part 274(n) Viral Diseases – Bee Virus Y
• Part 274(o) Viral Diseases – Other Virus Diseases

• BEEKEEPERS’ ASSOCIATIONS