There are tricks of the trade when moving any type of livestock, but shifting a group of beehives takes real finesse, and there is an art to getting all the stock on the truck.

Beekeeper Dwayne Sykes is moving a group of hives from their nest in some grasses and flowers, in the hills above Wellington in the New South Wales central west

To hear the nursing lecturer-cum-apiarist talk about her furry yellow charges is to hear a woman besotted.

Ullrich literally talks to her bees, introducing herself as she approaches each hive

WHEN you mention leatherwood to an old beekeeper, a misty faraway look comes into his eyes.

It is all about the honey harvest from leatherwood trees having been better “in the old days”. Indeed, it was.

Over the past 50 years of forestry operations, with

For all the buzz around backyard beekeeping, there's a shift underway at the other end of the industry.

The big commercial operators are looking to move from mass honey production to pollination.

In part this comes down to the expansion of horticultural industries that rely on bees.

Millions of bees trucked into Victoria to pollinate almond plantations during August are now working their magic to help boost Victoria’s spring canola crops.

Pollinators are our friends but their populations are dying off. Anthea Batsakis explores what's behind the slaughter.

IT wasn’t as dramatic as a fire, but Mornington fire station officer Simon Mildren was only too happy to respond to a call out of an unusual nature last week.

A swarm of bees had made themselves at home on the front doorstep of a Mt Martha home and the owners – with young children – were a little

INTRODUCED to beekeeping in Grade 7, Paul Marsh's passion for the industry is still going strong decades later, and now he wants to share that love with others.

Based in Sarina, he established a business focusing on producing queen bees for the domestic and Canadian markets. However, in 2012 he rebranded to Bee2U, moved into honey production and hasn't looked back.

 

Biosecurity Queensland is confident that the varroa mite incursion in Townsville can be eradicated by destroying infested Asian Honey Bee (AHB) colonies in the

A north Queensland hobbyist beekeeper says he is outraged after being forced to get rid of his four hives, following pressure from local government. Finch Hatton resident Barry Parkins has been breeding native and honeybees on his hinterland property for two years. But after the Mackay Regional Council came out to his property to...