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The 2020 NZ Colony Loss Survey will launch in early September. Please watch your email inboxes for an invitation to participate. For those who are unfamiliar with the survey, the goal is to quantify winter losses across both regions and time. While NZ's winter loss rates are 'low' by international standards, NZ beekeepers lost around 82,000 hives last winter. Moreover, loss rates at a national level increased 25% between 2015 and 2019. And while some places like the lower South Island have seen year-on-year increases in loss rates since 2015, others like the lower North Island have seen s
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Hello all, my colleague and I from the University of Auckland are looking into a solution to solving beehive theft. I am conducting research around this to hear people's experience with theft and whether they will be interested in our product. Please, can you share with me your experience as well as what will make your beekeeping experience great? Thank you
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I am an economist at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute. Since 2015, I have run the NZ Colony Loss Survey. In talking with beekeepers and scientists over the last several years and by browsing the forum, it is clear to me that while scientists are great at dreaming up research ideas, not all of them have led to meaningful impacts for beekeepers. So, I have recently been working on developing a new survey, the NZ Bee Research Priorities Survey. The key idea behind the survey is to ask beekeepers themselves to prioritise possible r
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hi guys! i found an ebook from a german scientist, publishing his most recent research, thankfully the ebook is in english and might be of use to somebody. http://www.hobos.de/media/user_upload/Images_pdfs_etc/publikationen_ebooks/Exploring_the_world_of_the_honeybee.epub especially interesting i found the data on heating the hive, and the role of beeswax, considering this information im not sure if ill use plastic foundation (which is an insulator) for brood frames.
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https://www.khaleejtimes.com/news/uae-health/honey-can-combat-breast-cancer-uaeu-scientists-find-manuka A follow up and further research to published research I saw several years ago. I asked well known NZ researchers about the first article at the time; they said the research methodology and writing was legit. I hope some will take this as good news, will see it for what it is, and that we don't get people taking it to extremes either pro or anti. -
Announced yesterday, sixty-eight new science research projects will be funded under the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour Fund, totalling $248 million over the next five years. "The Endeavour Fund is an important tool in the Government’s ten-year vision for a highly dynamic New Zealand science system, and invests in excellent science that has the potential to positively impact New Zealand economically, environmentally and socially. Under the 2017 Endeavour Fund round, up to $15 million per year in total will be invested in 41 projects under the ‘Smart Idea
