This spring, beekeepers in the deep south have been forced to battle through the elements as snow dumps and record September rainfall made..

Critical of ApiNZ’s Honey Strategy 2024-2030 since its release, fellow industry body NZ Beekeeping Inc are workshopping their own strategy.

Though at once a symbol of disunity, the competing strategies of ApiNZ and NZ Beekeeping Inc betray a shared sense of crisis...

Curious as to the motivation, remuneration and hours required to be an administrator of Backyard Beekeeping NZ’s Facebook page, we meet admi

Swarming is how hives reproduce, it has been an essential part of bees lives for millennia. It is, however, not an essential part of beekeep

Ahead of an upcoming series on breeding bees for varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH), science writer Dave Black summarises where we've got to...

The New Zealand honey industry is in "deep crisis for survival", stabilisation will take "several years", the United States has overtaken...

"Enthusiasm is contagious ... Something is catching, but what exactly?" The buzz of Aimz's new career is rubbing off on others...

What does Ian Fletcher make of the ACT Party's Treat Principles Bill? Find out in his Views from Outside the Apiary...

Col Loss Survey author Pike Stahlmann-Brown gives beekeepers who haven’t yet completed the survey this gentle nudge, just weeks out from the

Having sold up his beekeeping business of “many” years, James Corson has headed north to “see what the rest of the world is doing."...

UMFHA explain their promotional concept "New Zealand Mānuka Honey Day", celebrated November 4...