HONEY BEE & POLLINATION

A Field Guide to Native Flora Used by Honeybees in Tasmania

  • 118 pages

  • Published: 1 Dec 2009

  • Author(s): Leech, Mark

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This pocket field guide is intended to provide a user-friendly tool for beekeepers to help identify Tasmanian native flora likely to be accessed by and beneficial to honeybees. It is an essential element of a suite of products that describe Tasmania’s honeybee industry and the floral resources accessed by honeybees. It is an essential element of a suite of products that describe Tasmania’s honeybee industry and floral resources accessed by honeybees.

The National Workshop on the Effects of Honey Bees on the Environment identified the need for each state to develop a beekeeping resource database to assist the beekeeping industry and relevant national and state government departments when determining beekeeper usage of government-controlled lands.