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Australasian Honey Bee Research Conference scheduled for Perth, Western Australia in April 2021
Conference CRC for Honeybee Products Honeybee research
The main conference organisers are the co-operative research centre (CRC) for Honey Bee Products based at the University of Western Australia.
Sentinel hives help keep Australian honey pure and free from Varroa
From a beekeepers perspective, Australia is the last bastion of pure honey. That’s because Australia is the last place in the world still free of the dreaded varroa destructor.
Quality Seals released for Australian Manuka honey
Australian Manuka Honey Association Manuka honey
Local manuka honey buyers will get extra assurance with the release of two new quality seals for authentic Australian manuka honey.
The seals are only available to manuka honey producers whose honey meets the standard laid down by the Australian Manuka Honey Association.
NZ honey industry spokesman claims Australians "bastardizing" Maori creation story
Manuka honey Maori New Zealand UMF Honey Association
John Rawcliffe, general manager of New Zealand’s UMF honey industry association, told online news site Stuff.co.nz recently that Australian honey producers are “taking part of the [Maori] creation story and bastardizing it.”
His remarkable claim appears to have little support, but is part of an ongoing campaign intended to block Australian manuka honey producers from access to international markets.
Australian native bee information and resources
There are more than 1500 indigenous species of bees in Australia. A tiny native stingless bee, known as sugar bag, is probably the only one most Australians would have heard of, because indigenous Australians have long collected its honey.
But up until quite recently, little has been known about the other species.