The project presented here intent to pursue 3 objective: Objective 1 will allow to determine if whether or not it is possible to improve spontaneous visit rate…
The project is to locate nucleus beehives containing new waxfoundation on canola crops that have been treated with seeddressing chemicals that appear on the approved chemicals register…
The AgriFutures Honey Bee & Pollination Program aims to support RD&E that will ensure a productive, sustainable and more profitable Australian beekeeping industry and secure the pollination of Australia’s horticultural and agricultural crops.
The aim of the project is to determine the susceptibility of typical colonies of Australian commercial honey bees to Varroa. This knowledge is needed as part of Australia’s national strategy…
The AgriFutures Honey Bee & Pollination Program aims to support RD&E that will ensure a productive, sustainable and more profitable Australian beekeeping industry and secure the pollination of Australia’s horticultural and agricultural crops.
RIRDC Project PRJ009276 demonstrated proofofconcept for application of BLUP methods to genetic evaluation of Australian bees. The datasets analysed in that project were small, and limited in detail of pedigree,…
…towards creating a National Bee Pest Surveillance Program that includes targeted and risk based surveillance strategies that target a wide variety of bee pests and pest bees, not just exotic…
Propolis is a resinous mixture that honey bees produce from saliva, beeswax and the exude of tree buds, sap flows and other botanical sources. It is used as a sealant…
…bees over concerns of novel pathogens introduced by Apis cerana and the unknown presence of slow paralysis virus. While pathogens of Apis cerana are currently being assessed, a national survey…
Nosema (N. apis and N. ceranae) and chalkbrood (Ascosphaera apis) are significant honeybee pathogens that reduce hive productivity and cause colony losses. Outbreaks continue to occur and…
…& pasture seed industry AIM to quantify to growers (and others) the importance of bee’s in the production system Honey bee industry AIM to demonstrate the importance of pollination to…
The Australian Honey Bee Industry Council (AHBIC) has proposed that current levies in the honeybee industry might be replaced by a unified hivebased levy. AHBIC has suggested…
Biosecurity Queensland is seeking national cost sharing for the eradication of Asian Honey Bees (AHB) under the Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed. An economic analysis is required to support the…
The project will provide design and description of artificial plantings as resources for use by honeybees and other nectivorous and pollenivorous species in various Australian settings. The project will consider:…
…(both V. destructor and V. Jacobsoni), the brood mite Tropilaelaps (Tropilaelaps clareae) and the honey bee tracheal mite (Acarapis woodi) infesting adult bees. 1.1 National Sentinel Hive Program 1.2. Swarm…
The construction of an appropriate risk analysis framework relevant to underpin the development of a national surveillance program to underpin border surveillance and post incursion response. The…
Identify a pollen substitute whose ingredients have been scientifically tested for preference and palatability by honey bees….
Hold a 1day symposium for a widerange of stakeholders to hear about issues relating to bee health from Australian and international experts, including the release of the…
This project will build on the outcomes of the previous RIRDC project PRJ000037 which undertook a feasibility study into the fungal biocontrol of small hive beetle with…
The aim of this project is to determine the impact that N. ceranae is having on the beekeeping industry in Australia, to monitor the progress of infection…
Substances that are attractive to honeybees will be identified Igredients that meet the nutritional needs of honeybees and are not toxic will be idenitifed Alternative pollen substitutes will be evaluated…
…I will use lab assays to provide adult bees with pollen and experimentally infected them with sacbrood virus, with the hypothesis that pollen fed bees will have reduced virus infections….
…brood of honey bees in the larval stage of development. The infected larvae die and decay in their cells, then form a scale that the bees cannot or will not…
The AgriFutures Honey Bee & Pollination Program aims to support RD&E that will ensure a productive, sustainable and more profitable Australian beekeeping industry and secure the pollination of Australia’s horticultural and agricultural crops.
The project will have three phases. Phase 1. Confirm the results of Pflugfelder and Koeniger and show that an extract of the queen’s abdominal tergites can attract…
The AgriFutures Honey Bee & Pollination Program aims to support RD&E that will ensure a productive, sustainable and more profitable Australian beekeeping industry and secure the pollination of Australia’s horticultural and agricultural crops.
…chemicals on European Honeybees. A pamphlet will be developed that will list the common agricultural chemicals used in Australia, rating these chemicals according to their friendliness to European Honeybees. The…
leafcutter bees are much better pollinators of lucene and Australian honey bees are in jeopardy as we speak with the imminent arrival of the Varroa mite. If leafcutters are to…
Colony health and productivity is greatly influenced by the number and genetic variety of the drones with which queens mate. Beekeepers often complain that queens produced in…
To determine whether Nosema ceranae infects bees or can be found in domestic honey or honey imported into Australia…
…for crop pollination by native bee species and by harnessing this potential. Specifically, the aims of this project are to investigate both the usefulness of bluebanded bees in the pollination…
…managing the impact of bee decline on food production has focused on bees. Modifying the plant’s need for insect pollination has not be seriously considered. Experience with a range of…
In preparing the Compatibility of Management Objectives on Public Lands with Beekeeping (PRJ009102) report for RIRDC, GHD identified that access to public lands by apiarists is being…
…of pest bees and/or bee pests at Australian ports based on the best available information. We will do this by combining likelihood of entry with likelihood of establishment. To estimate…
…of nurse bees, and (b) their hypopharyngeal gland development. This will be done using feeding experiments of newly eclosed bees in small cages. For the ingredients that show significant impact…
My research aims to understand the contribution of floral resources to colony and population health of honeybees and native bees, and to devise appropriate farmlevel floral enhancement schemes in collaboration…
This pilot course will be the learning and development program for the honey industry to establish a holistic approach to living with Asian bees. As the risk of Asian bees…
…majority) of the pollination of these crops is performed incidently, and at no cost to the producer, by either feral bees or by bees from commercial hives located in the…
Varroa mites are arguably the most serious pest currently being experienced by honey bees. They are not presently found in Australia but it is assumed that this status will eventually…
The International Union for the Study of Social Insects is the major international academic society for the study of social insects including honeybees. The society meets every four years to…
…The focus of this study is to test the palatability of supplementary feeds and to inform beekeepers about how well honey bees utilise the feeds from a cost benefit perspective….
This project will analyse the pollen content of representative samples of Australian honeys with the aim of developing objective pollen analytical criteria for verifying the geographic authenticity…
Australian feral, Australian domestic, Africanized bees (from Texas, Arizona and California) and Sao Paulo Brazil, African bees from South Africa, Cape bees from South Africa, a panel of bees from…
…portable RaspberryPi computer for infield installation, power source and solar support, and custom machine learning software that tracks insect numbers, movement patterns and floralvisiting behaviours of individual honeybees using machine…
…will be used to identify known viruses. Injected bees that show signs of disease, but are negative in PCR and serology tests, will be further tested to isolate novel pathogens….
…to this pathogen. The project aims to: 1. Genotype Australian strains of Ascosphaera apis; 2. Identify lines of honey bees that currently exhibit rapid hygienic behavior using two different methods…
from around Australia. Honey bees in healthy hives contained approximately 10E7–10E8 bacteria per gram of gut. In contrast, chalkbrooddiseased hives contained bees which had significantly less gut bacteria. Experiments showed…
