Beekeeping

A couple who started a business to help their daughter's eczema now manage 450 hives and run inclusive beekeeping programs for schools and NDIS participants.

About 600 West Australian beehives are being loaded on trucks to assist South Australian almond growers facing drought.

South Australian beekeepers are already battling drought and low prices. The last thing they need is a bee-killing parasite, which has stayed out of the state so far.

Eucalypt species have been observed experiencing a mass budding after the May floods in northern NSW, boosting habitat for the critically endangered regent honeyeater.

Australian scientists are looking for creative ways to stop drug-resistant superbugs in their tracks — and bees could be the solution.

A bee hotel is a great way to attract native bees to your backyard, but experts say some pre-made models are unsuitable and can even harm their guests. 

A pesticide called fipronil caused the deaths, but how the bees came into contact with it is yet to be established.

Varroa destructor mite has been found in southern Queensland, the first detection of the world's worst bee-killing parasite in the state.

While honey producers and beekeepers have ways to treat varroa-infested hives, the bees themselves also have a few tricks up their sleeve.

A ban on the importation of queen bees from interstate means that more and more Tasmanian beekeepers will use artificial insemination in their apiaries.

Australian beekeepers are looking overseas to find chemical-free solutions to manage the world's deadliest bee parasite.

A former head of a crime and corruption watchdog was able to push for beekeeping reforms in Queensland without declaring he had just acquired shares in a honey business eyeing deals with beekeepers nationwide.

An outbreak of the world's deadliest bee parasite, varroa destructor mite, has been found less than 5 kilometres from the Queensland border — the closest detection to date.

Beekeepers in South Australia are seeing less than 10 per cent of their annual honey production this season as drought strips bees of food sources.

Some regions in South Australia have had the lowest rainfall since records began, according to a preliminary Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) report.

The NSW south coast's only queen bee breeder is using artificial insemination to breed honey bee colonies that are resistant to varroa mite.

Beekeepers in Victoria are being kept busy as hives swarm in warm weather. On one job, the side of a farmhouse was "vibrating" with activity when beekeepers arrived to remove a 50-year-old hive.

Cody Hannover says he wants to hire other people with "quirks" at his thriving honey business as expands online.

As the fight against a massive bushfire north of Perth continues, honey producers have reported devastating losses to habitat critical for their bees.

As the varroa mite continues to cut a destructive path across Australia, demand and prices for pollination services are set to rise — and some producers say shoppers could feel the sting at the check-out.