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Month: September 2014

Cover Picture of Australian Bee Journal!

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Published Bee Picture!

The latest issue of the Australian Bee JournalAustralian Bee Journal Cover is quite special for Bee Scientifics!  The cover features a photo called “waiting for rain to end” taken by the company’s proprietor, Jody Gerdts, in her apiary in Minnesota.  The picture was one of two award winning photos from the Victorian Apiarist’s Association annual meeting in Melbourne last June.  Inside the journal is also an article introducing Jody to the Apiculture industry!

Click here to read the on-line Journal.

A profile of Jody Gerdts in the Australian Bee Journal

 

The Australian Bee Journal is a monthly journal produced by the Victorian Apiarist Association.  Inside is a wealth of information on beekeeping and the beekeeping industry in Victoria, Australia and around the world.  Give it a read!

Australia Remains Varroa Free

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Here is a nice article by the Age- a prominent Australian paper that I was interviewed for and some of my photos were published!  For now, Australia remains Varroa Free. Check it out!

Bee careful out there – a parasitic marauder is nearly at our shores

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Peter Spinks

Fairfax Science Columnist

Honeybees lead something of a charmed life, as they flit about collecting nectar and pollen and producing oodles of honey and wax. But now, it seems, their carefree days might soon be numbered.

Feeling the buzz: Bees pollinate the flowers of at least one third of wild and farmed plants but their numbers are dropping due, in part, to a parasite varroa destructor which has now reached New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

Feeling the buzz: Bees pollinate the flowers of at least one third of wild and farmed plants but their numbers are dropping due, in part, to a parasite varroa destructor which has now reached New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

Populations of the four-winged insects, which pollinate the flowers of at least one-third of wild and farmed plants that humans eat, have decreased over the past three decades in the US and Britain. In part, this has been due to the prevalence of crop pesticides, the destruction of flower-rich habitats and pests.

The biggest pest threat is from a pinhead-sized parasite, Varroa destructor, an oval-shaped, reddish-brown mite that sucks the blood from bees and inflicts upon them a suite of virulent diseases, such as deformed-wing virus.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/bee-careful-out-there–a-parasitic-marauder-is-nearly-at-our-shores-20140828-109ics.html#ixzz3DNhKmCHI