The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world’s managed bee colonies
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Beekeeping on Fiji TV | Green Pillars | S3 | Ep2 | Beekeeping Symposium
Part 2 of our series featuring the Fiji Beekeepers Association sees us traveling to Tavua for a Beekeeping Symposium with Zainal Khan, where he talks about Destructive Bee Diseases like American Foulbrood Disease and Varroa Jacobsoni
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Beekeeping on Fiji TV | Green Pillars | S3 | Ep1 | Queen Bees and Honey Extraction
We’re heading to the interiors of Ba to see his Bee farm and learn how to introduce a Queen bee to a new hive and see how Nilesh extracts honey at his own extraction house
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Fiji’s Best Honey 2021 – FBA AGM 2021
“Fiji’s Best Honey 2021” was awarded by Mr. Rahim of Fiji Beekeepers Association.
Ministry of Agriculture is offering cyclone relief for Vanua Levu Beekeepers after TC Yasa
Ministry of Agriculture is offering cyclone relief for Vanua Levu Beekeepers after TC Yasa . The Bee Section of Ministry of Agriculture is offering cyclone relief in the form of bee food supplement.
Impacts of Cyclones on Beekeepers in the South Pacific
Experience in Fiji suggests that the main difference between losing only 10-20% of bee colonies and losing 70% or more was whether the beekeeper roped or strapped the hives so that the hive bottom, boxes and lid all stayed together with the frames inside.
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Beekeeper Mentor Program – Call for mentor volunteers
Fiji Beekeepers Association is looking for skilled beekeepers who are willing to mentor less experienced beekeepers for a one-year period beginning in January. Mentors will work side-by-side with their trainee(s) and teach them essential beekeeping skills.
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‘A Guide to Beekeeping in the Tropics’ with Gavin McKenzie Videos
I have uploaded each chapter of `A Guide to Beekeeping in the Tropics’ with Gavin McKenzie to YouTube for everyone to see fast and simply. It is easiest followed from this playlist.
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The first eleven days of a worker bee’s life: egg & larva
A queen bee indulges in many strange behaviors, not the least of which is choosing the sex of her offspring. Of course, this surreal proclivity is shared throughout the Hymenoptera, a fact that doesn’t make it any less mysterious.
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Removing bees into hive in Suva Fiji
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