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Rebuilding the bushfire-devastated honey bee and pollination industry: Crucial to meet agriculture’s $100 billion target and put food on Aussie plates
... Farmers’ Federations $100 billion target by 2030. To secure the industry’s future and the food on our plates, the industry has developed an industry wide recovery action plan to guide the industry as it rebuilds.Australian Honey Bee Industry Council (AHBIC) and AgriFutures Australia, have examined...
Honey Bee and Pollination Program Five Year Research, Development & Extension Plan 2014/15 – 2018/19
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Learning how to live with Varroa
...Blink and you’d miss it- the Varroa mite’s minute presence is all but invisible to the naked eye. Yet the tiny mite is the greatest known threat to Australia’s honey bee and pollination industry. For nearly a year and a half the industry has been battling the tiny parasite, cumulating...
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Rural Women’s Award Alumni Leader: ‘There’s strength in numbers’
... Haven, the business she runs with her husband Jeff that specialises in Australian native stingless bees. Over a challenging 10 years, they have pioneered an innovative, award-winning stingless native bee box, Native bees are recognised as effective pollinators and currently complement the work...
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...custr13_HBE PRJ-006390 Mia Lorber-Hughes 02 6923 6911 Dianna Somerville (DPI) Administrator, Contracts The Crown in right of the State of NSW acting through the Department of Primary Industries Varroa mites are arguably the most serious pest currently being experienced by honey bees...
Investigating factors that influence chalkbrood outbreaks in Australia
... on susceptibility to Nosema and chalkbrood disease at both the individual bee and colony level2. Establish whether certain flowering events increase colony susceptibility to Nosema and chalkbrood3. Determine synergistic interactions between Nosema and chalkbrood infections that may exacerbate disease...
Use of sniffer dog in detection of American foul brood in beehives
...custr13_HBE PRJ-004482 Mia Lorber-Hughes 02 6923 6911 Sharon de Wet Hickey, Paul The State of Queensland acting through the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries This project will involve having a dog trained to successfully detect the presence of American Foul Brood (AFB) in bee hives. AFB...
Value of Pollination in the Australian Economy
... will be evaluated against a conceptual economic framework for the valuation of impacts. The conceptual economic framework will then be implemented to provide an updated, defendable, and transparent estimate of the economic value of honey bee pollination to the Australian economy. The transparency...
Residues and safety trials for SHB Harbourage device (xtn PRJ-004606)
... device.This project extension aims to produce data on honey residues and bee safety associated with the use of APITHOR™ hive beetle harbourage in field trials run for up to 6 months that will support the registraioatn applicaiton for APITHOR™. To conduct new trials to collect data on honey residues and bee safety associated with the use of APITHOR™ in field trials fun for up to 6 months. PRO_CLAQ...
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The rural women blazing new trails in education for Australia’s agricultural future
... to meaningful experiences.”“I feel like agriculture has this real niche of being able to provide really hands-on experiences and connect students to really meaningful work.” Bee SchoolAnother rural woman who’s blazing new trails in education is Belinda Pooley, a dedicated beekeeper in Southeast...
Industry Development Grant_Madlen Kratz
... proposing a small field-based experiment examiningthe palatability and utilisation of currently available supplementary feeds. The focus of this study is to test the palatability of supplementary feeds and to inform beekeepers about howwell honey bees utilise the feeds from a cost benefit perspective...
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Resilient beekeeping in the face of varroa
...The Australian honey bee and pollination industry is vibrant, with 1,800 highly skilled commercial beekeepers and 28,000 recreational beekeepers. The industry extracts 37,000 tonnes of honey each year from 530,000 commercially managed hives. Many of these hives are used to pollinate 35...
Growers and beekeepers working together – protecting crops and their pollinators
...custr13_HBE PRJ-009528 Mia Lorber-Hughes 02 6923 6911 Sam Malfroy Turner, Rodney Plant Health Australia Limited Hold a 1-day symposium for a wide-range of stakeholders to hear about issues relating to bee health from Australian and international experts, including the release of the APVMA review...
Removing barriers to beekeeping
... young people, women and families to enter our industry and learn sustainable beekeeping trade skills.”Natasha is the Co Founder and Owner of Bee All Natural, a multi award winning bee conservation business that produces raw honey, infused honey and innovative products using native bush foods...
Industry Development Grant – AHBIC
...custr13_HBE PRO-015532 Mia Lorber-Hughes 02 6923 6911 Helen Goodall Goodall, Helen Australian Honey Bee Industry Council AHBIC is organising the 4th Australian Bee Congress, which will be held in Sydney from the 8 -11 June 2022. One of our objectives is to assist and promote the upskilling of young...
Securing pollination for more productive agriculture: Guidelines for effective pollinator management and stakeholder adoption
...Annually, crop pollinators contribute about AU$14b to the Australian economy (Clarke and Le Feuvre 2020). The pollinators include managed and feral honey bees, native bees and a range of other insects. The produce that depends on pollination includes 35 species of fruit, vegetables, nuts and cotton...
Research to cut summer fun short for major beehive pest
... of dollars annually.Small Hive Beetle (SHB) is particularly active during warm and humid conditions, feeding on bee larvae and turning honey into fermented slime.A Queensland-based research team – led by Dr Diana Leemon and Dr Andrew Hayes – is currently developing a synthetic lure to deploy in a trap...
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Varroa destructor Research Strategy 2024-2027
...Following the arrival of varroa at the Port of Newcastle, AgriFutures Australia commissioned research on how the industry should prepare for the possible establishment of varroa in Australia. A scientific group centred on the Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution (BEE) Lab at The University of Sydney...
In hive fungal bio-control of small hive beetle
... on the DPI&F expertise gained in the previous RIRDC porject and the more general expertise gained from research into fungal control of a range of livestock pests and parasites. The project team at Yeerongpilly intends to work closely with and seek advice from others experienced in the honey bee...
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Supplementary feeding can build and maintain hives amid stress
...Improved nutrition the key to hive productivity and improved colony resilience during dearth periods and varroa infestationsKey messages Boosting hive nutrition through strategic supplementary feeding is likely to become more important as the pressures on honey bees increase following the varroa...