Apiarist's Advocate

03/09/2024

🐝💻📚Things might be getting busy in the hives as spring arrives, but there's always time for some Apiarist's Advocate reading – September issue hit inboxes today, and online at www.apiaristsadvocate.com.... (oh, and you can subscribe for FREE there too!)

28/08/2024

📣 Advertiser Appreciation Post – Stowers 🛢 🛢🛢

🍯 Honey season is just around the corner ... are you prepared? Stowers have a range of drums, made in NZ and deliverable nation wide. Get organised now – www.stowers.co.nz

23/08/2024

🐝⛑ Our Energetic Engineers ⛑🐝

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/our-energetic-engineers

While you – the beekeeper – likely read this from a warm, winter, abode, science writer Dave Black nestles into the cluster of your honey bee colonies to help us understand how we study their use of energy…

22/08/2024

🐝 🥽⛑ PPE and Mum’s Endeavour ⛑🥽 🐝

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/ppe-and-mum-s-endeavour

‘Aimz’ continues her accounts of a fledgling career in the hives with analysis of protective equipment in use at her workplace, and a look back at life growing up with both mother and father toiling on the hive tool.

19/08/2024

📣 Advertiser Appreciation Post: New Zealand Beeswax 🐝

👼Keep varroa at bay – get the 10 week halo of protection that is Apivar ... available at NZ Beeswax.

19/08/2024

We all know a Wayne or two... heck some of us might be Wayne!

"Party Time! Excellent!"

DISCLAIMER: "Wayne" is an entirely fictional creation, even lacking a human model for the artwork. Any resemblance of "Wayne" in name or appearance to anybody living or dead is purely coincidence.

18/08/2024

❓👩‍⚕️How Hard is it to Run a Health System? 👨‍⚕️❓

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/how-hard-is-it-to-run-a-health-system

Quite difficult it would seem, so Ian Fletcher explains some of the intricacies...

17/08/2024

🐝👨‍🏫 AFB Education and Self-Sufficiency Aspirations 👨‍🏫 🐝

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/afb-education-and-self-sufficiency-aspirations

We delve into the efforts of Otago beekeepers Murray and Heidi Rixon to educate others on AFB, and how they are striving to build a self sufficient life, where honey bees play a critical role...

16/08/2024

🐝🧔 American Foulbrood: A Personal History 🐝🧔

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/american-foulbrood-a-personal-history

From 100% destruction of his hives, to inspection tips, close calls with fire balls 🔥and some of the colourful characters met along the way, John Berry details his long history with AFB...

13/08/2024

📸 A few snaps from The Beekeepers Conference 2024 in Whanganui this week ... look out for the full report in September's Advocate. ✏

13/08/2024

🐝Queen Breeders Feature 🐝

Want to know more about the industry's leading queen bee suppliers? Seven breeding programmes define their operations:

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/queen-breeders-feature

10/08/2024

🍯🍯🍯Could NZ see a beekeeper-owned honey selling business formed? That was just one of many ideas floated at Manuka Orchard's recent Open Day...

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/talking-points-from-m%C4%81nuka-orchard-open-day

Some of the most pressing issues facing beekeepers were presented and discussed at an open day hosted by Manuka Orchard, July 26...

09/08/2024

🚨Advertiser Appreciation Post – Manuka Engineering 🔧

❓Did you know – Logan Bowyer is not just a honey storage and processing expert at Manuka Orchard, but an engineer with a vat-load of experience in 🍯 honey processing. Get in touch with Manuka Engineering to see how they can improve your honey plant – including replacing those old plastic pricker needles with state-of-the-art stainless steel 🪡🪡🪡... https://www.manukaengineering.com/

06/08/2024

And with the arrival of Spring comes BEE AWARE MONTH, dedicated to learning about and celebrating the humble honey bee.
ARE YOU PLANNING AN EVENT? Email us at [email protected] so we can advertise it on our social media pages.
Visit our Bee Aware Month webpages https://apinz.org.nz/bee-aware-month/ for more information about Bee Aware Month and a range of educational resources.

Follow this year's campaign on our Bee Aware Month social pages:
https://www.facebook.com/beeawarenz/
https://www.instagram.com/beeawaremonthnz/

06/08/2024

🍯 A Ratings Disaster 🍯

We delve into the convoluted environment which competing honey ‘rating’ systems have created, and how some UMF licence holders are said to be undermining the brand...

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/a-ratings-disaster

Why did 100% Pure New Zealand Honey provide honey to an offshore packer and then allow them to use the UMF brandmark on that product?

05/08/2024

🚨Advertiser Appreciation Post – Vita Bee Health & B402 for Wax Moth Control

🆕New to the market, B402 is the solution to wax moth which Kiwi beekeepers have been looking for ☑️... Get it at Ceracell Beekeeping Supplies.

04/08/2024

👨‍🏫🐝Wanganui Beekeepers Conference Boasts Packed Programme 🐝👨‍🏫

With just a week to go, have you got your registration for any days, or all three days, of The Beekeepers Conference 2024 in Wanganui, August 11-13?

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/wanganui-beekeepers-conference-boasts-packed-programme

We dive into the programme set for The Beekeepers Conference 2024, to find out what attendees can expect...

04/08/2024

🍯📉The Landmine Landscape of Honey Company Mergers and Acquisitions 📉 🍯

Share prices in listed New Zealand mānuka honey companies Comvita Ltd and Me Today Ltd have plummeted, indicative of a 'landmine landscape' of an industry where investors fear to tread....

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/the-landmine-landscape-of-honey-company-mergers-and-acquisitions

Writer, former securities analyst, and honey trader Bruce Roscoe reviews the 'landmine landscape' of an industry where investors fear to...

03/08/2024

🍯 🇯🇵 UMF Manuka Honey: Made in Japan 🇯🇵 🍯

Under UMF rules, honey displaying the brandmark must – almost always – be packed in New Zealand. So, why did one member allow manuka honey to be packed in Japan?

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/umf-m%C4%81nuka-honey-made-in-japan

A recent misstep from a UMFHA member which allowed Japanese filling of honey bags brings the Association’s rules under scrutiny...

02/08/2024

🐝🆕 Our biggest (and hopefully best!) issue yet hit inboxes and online today! www.apiaristsadvocate.com is where you can see it all and subscribe for 🆓 FREE... This month...

⚠️〽️ The "Landmine Landscape" confronting manuka honey investors.
🍯⁉️ "UMF Honey: Made in Japan" ... a UMF member contravenes their rules by allowing offshore manuka honey packing.
👑 Queen Breeders Feature – we get to know NZ's leading bee breeding programmes.
🔥 "AFB: A Personal History" by John Berry
🧊 But that's just a tip of the iceberg of content to interest any beekeeper or anyone in the apiculture industry...

See the lot at www.apiaristsadvocate.com

26/07/2024

Make sure you register this month... prices go up by $85 next month!

TO REGISTER, EMAIL: [email protected]
For more info email: [email protected]

25/07/2024

☀️🌧🌈 Beekeeper Wellbeing: Weather and Working Outdoors ☀️🌧🌈

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/beekeeper-wellbeing-weather-and-working-outdoors

During Colony Loss 2023 Kiwi beekeepers weighed in on their wellbeing ... Find out how the weather and working outdoors rated as an influence on their wellbeing....

23/07/2024

🆕 Buzzin with Aimz – A First Time for Everything 🆕

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/a-first-time-for-everything

You probably remember your first… love? Job? Beehive?...

22/07/2024

🐝💰 Simple Tasks Can Save AFB Management Agency Big 💰🐝

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/simple-tasks-can-save-afb-management-agency-big

There's a really simple thing beekeepers can do to save the AFB Management Agency money says general manager Niha Long (and it doesn't involve fire!)...

20/07/2024

💪🐝 UbeeO In Selection for Varroa Resistance 🐝💪

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/ubeeo-in-selection-for-varroa-resistance

Have you heard of the new method for testing a hive for hygienic behaviour – UbeeO? Let Mana Queen queen breeder Raf Augustyn bring you up to speed, but comparing and contrasting it against other tests...

20/07/2024

🚨 Advertiser Appreciation post – Neville Marr Chartered Accountant

Do you want an accountant who understands your beekeeping business 🐝📊? Neville Marr is a hobbyist beekeeper and business partner to all the commercial beekeepers on his books, from both North and South islands.

He's been a loyal supporter of Apiarist's Advocate since day dot ✊– way back in 2019! – and if you want to talk the business of bees, without obligation, he's your man: www.marrnz.com

19/07/2024

📣 Advertiser Appreciation Post – 🐝

With spring just around the corner, the team at Beequip NZ want to get you prepared for the oncoming onslaught of varroa ... book in a consultation at www.bqp.nz/consultation
🐝🧑‍💻👩‍💻🐝

19/07/2024

Help Now on Hand to Beat Wax Moth

Are you battling the destructive power of wax moth? Vita Bee Health and Beekeeping Supplies have teamed up to bring Kiwi beekeepers a new preventative. Learn all about B402 and how to get hold of it:

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/help-now-on-hand-to-beat-wax-moth

If you’ve kept bees for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly seen it – the destructive capabilities of wax moth. Prevention is...

16/07/2024

🐝👫The Dynamic Dunedin Duo 👫🐝

https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/the-dynamic-dunedin-duo

Murray and Heidi Rixon have got a fair bit going on at their Otago beekeeping business. Just how much?... take a read to get a peak inside!

14/07/2024

📣 Advertiser Appreciation Post - Hill Labs 🍯🔬🍯

Need honey test results ⚡️ fast!?

Hill Labs turn around the majority of their honey samples the VERY NEXT DAY and have a 99% SUCCESS ✅ rate for achieving their stated turnaround times for all testing! 🤝 https://www.hill-laboratories.com/analytical-testing/honey-testing/