November 12, 2008

$300K for honeybee pest program

Posted by eivindm @ 9:54 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania Pest and diseases

The Rudd Government will spend $300,000 over the next two years to continue a surveillance program for pests and diseases in Australia’s honey bee and pollination industries.

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November 10, 2008

Top Award to Manuka Honey Company

Posted by eivindm @ 9:46 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania

A major active manuka honey exporter with operations in the far north, Southland, and Masterton took the top award for Deloitte-Unlimited’s Fast 50 last week.

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Bees let Ord farmers down

Posted by eivindm @ 9:44 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania Pollination

Yields from a number of sunflower and melon crops in Western Australia’s Ord Valley have been slashed due to a lack of bees showing up to pollinate.

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November 9, 2008

Birdwatchers join the hunt for Asian honey bees

Posted by eivindm @ 4:32 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania

Bird enthusiasts and residents are joining Biosecurity Queensland’s hunt for Asian honey bee nests in the suburbs of Cairns.

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November 3, 2008

Beekeepers struggle despite higher incomes

Posted by eivindm @ 10:05 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania Business

Australian honeybee businesses continue to struggle despite an improvement in income over the past six years, according to a new survey released today.

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November 1, 2008

New tool soon in varroa mite battle

Posted by eivindm @ 7:40 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania Pest and diseases

Federated Farmers Bees chairman John Hartnell said a new fungicide developed by HortResearch and biological control company Becker Underwood in Australia was due to be released early next year.

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October 31, 2008

Australian govt refuse bumblebees crop pollination in

Posted by eivindm @ 7:56 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania

The federal government has refused a request to allow bumblebees into Australia to pollinate crops.

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October 9, 2008

Asian honey bees spreads in Australia

Posted by eivindm @ 6:37 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania

Public reporting of Asian honey bees has become more crucial to the DPI since the battleground has expanded into the suburbs of Cairns.

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September 29, 2008

Asian honeybee fight continues in Queensland

Posted by eivindm @ 6:20 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania

The Queensland Government hasn’t given up hope of getting rid of Asian honeybees in Far North Queensland.

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August 28, 2008

More Asian honey bees detected in North Qld

Posted by eivindm @ 6:48 pm
Australia, NZ, Oceania

Surveillance will be intensified south of Gordonvale after six foraging Asian honey bees were detected near Walsh’s Pyramid on Monday afternoon.

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