Report: Setting new standards for honey bee nutrition in Australian bee stock
Explore honey bee nutrition research that shows why artificial pollen diets cannot replace natural pollen and how to improve colony health.
HONEY BEE & POLLINATION
Research in Progress – Honeybee 2004-2005
33 pages
Published: 20 May 2005
Publication Code: 05-053
Author(s): RIRDC
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Provides details of honeybee research from July 2004 until June 2005 and lists projects commencing in the 2005/2006 financial year. It follows the Honeybee Research and Development Council Research Report 1980-1995 and the RIRDC Reports 1995-1997, 1998-2004, which were a collection of final report and progress summaries of levy funded honeybee research until June 2004. All of these research summaries plus many of the full research reports have been included on the soon-to-be-released version 3 of the Honeybee R&D CD.
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