pollinators Archive
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Asian Honey Bee – Senate Committee orders reconvening of CCEPP to continue eradication program for Asian honey bee
Posted on April 8, 2011 | 3 CommentsBureaucratic bungling and arguments about funding could possibly put us behind the eight ball in the eradication program for the Asian honey bee. An interim report from the Senate Rural... -
Crop pollination a buzz in the industry
Posted on August 30, 2009 | 3 CommentsImagine walking through an orchard or a flowering field to the absence of the comforting sounds of honey bees. These bees that effectively and painlessly pollinate crops and fruit trees are taken for granted. Until the day the parasitic varroa mite comes to Australia and ravage most, if not all, of the feral honey bee population and lay waste to commercial apiaries.





