Bees

Environment

Fighting to save our Aussie bees – one bee hotel at a time

Wattle Fellow Clancy Lester is on a mission to save Australia’s native bees by working with Indigenous communities and spreading the word about bee hotels

Sciences & Technology

Feral honeybees key to controlling deadly parasite

To stamp out the Varroa destructor parasite now attacking honeybees, we need to be targeting potentially infected feral honeybee populations

Sciences & Technology

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Podcast

How can we prevent Insect Armageddon?

Professor Phil Batterham discusses his work on insecticides; how they work and how we can develop more effective and sustainable pest control strategies, with a reduced environmental impact

Business & Economics

The great honey wars

Australia’s biggest honey company and some of the country’s largest supermarkets are facing accusations of selling ‘fake honey’. Five experts look at the impact of the allegations

Health & Medicine

Venomous stings and bites lie close to home

Watch out for bees and snakes – of all Australia’s venomous nasties they pose the biggest threat. And your home is the danger zone

Environment

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Under the Microscope

Biosecurity and the beekeeper

A passion for bees and beekeeping gives Professor Jean-Pierre Scheerlinck the headspace to think creatively about biosecurity and threats to the complex food production chain