Bees swarm around Evropi-Sofia Dalampira as she walks along Anel Honey Park’s on-site honeybee colonies next to beekeeper Kostas Boudouths, who is checking his hives. She was leading a tour group of kindergarteners through...
By Emma Sarah Tennant I love to watch the bees hard at work in our garden, but often think they deserve a holiday. So I was thrilled to get an email from Fiona Lane...
By Stephen Fleming Apiguard, the organically-approved varroa control treatment from Vita (Europe) Ltd, has just been approved for use in Australia. It is the first varroa control product to be approved by the Australian...
By Stephen Fleming I’ve just discovered a fascinating new site featuring Google Earth’s Street View. You have to guess where in the world the Street View location is – and for added beekeeper fun,...
Keltronix Inc in the beggining of November announced the launch of EyesOnHivesTM a powerful analytics platform that helps beekeepers, scientists, and other researchers quantify and assess the activity and health of a beehive. With EyesOnHives, beehive activity...
Can you imagine to rear honey bee colonies resistant to varroa and other bee diseases, with the capability to increase honey production and overcome harsh winters? “Hot dream” of every beekeeper can soon become a...
This year the Honey Breakfast will take place in quite a few countries: Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Romania. In 2014, Hungary and Romania started organising the European Honey Breakfast and they...
Tom Seeley is probably the most famous living bee biologist, renowned as author of a number of major books such as “The wisdom of the hive” and “Honey bee democracy”. In the latest issue...
The honey bee research association COLOSS has announced the preliminary results of their international study of colony losses over the 2014-15 winter. Data were collected from 31 countries. Egypt, Russia and the Ukraine participated for the...
Early-registration period has been extended until July 12th, 2015. If you missed the chance to register for the discounted price, grab this chance. This will be the last chance you can get it because...
New Zealand based beekeeping technology company, Hivemind Ltd, have released a new WiFi beehive scale and smartphone app that will allow urban beekeepers, bee educators and researchers, to better monitor their bees and more...
