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Beekeeping (honey bees)
...European honey bees (Apis mellifera) are the most common species of bee used for beekeeping in Australia. Honeybees are kept primarily for honey, bees wax, package bees and, increasingly, to provide pollination services for food and seed crops....
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Fires, Flowers and Bees: How Prescribed Burns Affect The Honeybee and Pollination Industry
... and the significant risk that fire presents. Prescribed burns are integral to Australia’s fire mitigation strategy. While intended to protect people, property and biodiversity, they can have unintended consequences on flower-visiting insects such as honeybees. The impact of prescribed burning can sometimes...
Plan Bee: The National Honeybee Genetic Improvement Program
...Research overview The National Honeybee Genetic Improvement Program is developing the world’s first honey bee genetic evaluation system.A collaborative initiative between major research organisations (NSW DPI, University of Sydney), industry (Better Bee WA, Wheen Bee Foundation) and the Animal...
Marcus Oldham Rural Leadership Program – HBE Kellie Round
...custr13_HBE PRJ-010137 Mia Lorber-Hughes 02 6923 6911 Kellie Round Round, Kellie Marcus Oldham College Honeybee and Pollination Program sponsorship of Kellie Round to attend the 2015 Marcus Oldham Rural Leadership Program. (28 June to 3 July 2015) Support capacity building in the Honeybee and Pollination industries PRO_CLAQ...
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AgriFutures Honey Bee & Pollination Program Resilient Beekeeping in the face of Varroa series resources 2024
...The ‘Resilient beekeeping in the face of Varroa’ project aims to determine the best strategies to manage and control varroa in the Australian context, making projections about spread, and the likely effects on honeybee health and pollination services.The Australian Honey Bee Industry...
Impacts of prescribed burning on the honeybee and pollination industries
... of the impact on beekeepers. The need to understand how frequency, timing, and intensity of prescribed burns affects the honeybee and pollination industries. The project will synthesise evidence on the effects of burns on honeybees. The project team will examine direct impacts of fire such as the removal...
Honeybee Newsletter
...custr13_HBE PRJ-004337 Mia Lorber-Hughes 02 6923 6911 Des Cannon Cannon, Des Desmond R Cannon The project entails: • researching, writing and preparing to print-ready stage RIRDC Honeybee Research News, a full-colour 4 page newsletter published four times a year to provide the industry...
Probiotics study shows promise in detecting and treating disease in honeybees
...Preliminary trials have shown there to be a direct correlation between gut bacterial numbers in honeybees and the overall health of hives.High levels of gut bacteria in honeybees could mean healthier and more productive hives, according to the latest research from the University of Canberra funded...
Resilient beekeeping in the face of Varroa
...custr13_HBE PRO-016302 Mia Lorber-Hughes 02 6923 6911 Nadine Chapman Makoviney, Nicole The University of Sydney Varroa is the biggest threat to the Australian honeybee industry and the industries that rely on bees for pollination services. This project will determine the best strategies to manage...
Reducing the impact of Nosema and viruses by improving honeybee nutrition
...custr13_HBE PRJ-009987 Mia Lorber-Hughes 02 6923 6911 Morrissy, Chris CSIRO Nosema (N. apis and N. ceranae) and viruses contribute significantly to the pathogen load of honeybee colonies but their cryptic nature leaves them largely unmanaged by beekeepers. The current RIRDC project PRJ-8450 found...
A look into the sex-determining gene in Australian honeybees
...Sex in honeybees is determined by a gene named the complementary sex determiner (csd). Unfertilised eggs emerge to become drones, whilst fertilised eggs become queen and worker bees. Like other genes, csd has numerous alleles. Alleles are different variations of the same gene.A queen bee has two...
Honey Bee & Pollination
Around one-third of the food produced in Australia relies on honey bee pollination. The Australian honey bee industry plays a vital role in agriculture, supporting the pollination and production of crops such as almonds, apples and avocados, and helping to ensure a healthy, sustainable food supply.Honey Bee and Pollination Program Communications 2018-2020
... and agricultural crops and honey production in to the future, on a sustainable and profitable basis.This will raise awareness of research outcomes and help to ensure they are widely adopted by the honeybee industry and pollination dependent plant industries.It will also support the education of plant industries and the Australian community about the importance of pollination services. PRO_CLAQ...
Assessment of a hive based levy for the Australian honeybee industry
...custr13_HBE PRJ-004605 Mia Lorber-Hughes 02 6923 6911 Robert Granger Woodburn _ Garland, Vicki Garland Outcomes Pty Ltd The Australian Honey Bee Industry Council (AHBIC) has proposed that current levies in the honeybee industry might be replaced by a unified hive-based levy. AHBIC has suggested...