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My Black-Belt In Beekeeping: Beware of the Beekeepers’ Bad Back!

Since arriving in South Australia some years ago, and obtaining beekeeping reserve licences for both Nixon Skinner Reserve and Milbrook Reservoir, I have ardently pursued my love of beekeeping. This interest has included working with commercial...

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Beekeeping Basics- How to light a smoker

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Lighting the smoker and keeping it lit seems to be a major problem to many beekeepers. Interestingly, lighting and maintaining a cool smoke in a smoker is all about physics and camp-fire skills, more so than beekeeping! In this video, we’ll show you...

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Bees, Mites and Viruses: Assessing the risk to South African crop pollinators

The world’s bees face a major threat from deformed wing virus (de Mirandaa & Generschb, 2010), a pathogen transmitted by the parasitic Varroa mite. It is responsible for causing the death of millions of colonies (van Engelsdorp et al., 2008)...

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