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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.
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.
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.
Bird enthusiasts and residents are joining Biosecurity Queensland’s hunt for Asian honey bee nests in the suburbs of Cairns.
Australian honeybee businesses continue to struggle despite an improvement in income over the past six years, according to a new survey released today.
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.
The federal government has refused a request to allow bumblebees into Australia to pollinate crops.
Public reporting of Asian honey bees has become more crucial to the DPI since the battleground has expanded into the suburbs of Cairns.
The Queensland Government hasn’t given up hope of getting rid of Asian honeybees in Far North Queensland.
Surveillance will be intensified south of Gordonvale after six foraging Asian honey bees were detected near Walsh’s Pyramid on Monday afternoon.