Breeding for medical-grade honey
Understanding the heritability of bioactive ingredients for Australian manuka honey will help focus breeding programs for honey bee farm establishment. The research showed that DHA… Read More
Unravelling the secrets of producing bioactive honey
CRC for Honey Bee products researchers determined when and how Manuka bioactive honey is formed by tracking dihydroxyacetone (DHA) appearance in nectar throughout the lifecycle… Read More
Australian Manuka: Tracing Leptospermum genetic diversity
Molecular studies have increased our understanding of Leptospermum species in Australia, and their evolutionary relationships, providing a unique opportunity to expand Australia’s Manuka honey production… Read More
Aerial mapping and modelling of forest flowering and fire
Using satellite data, the CRC for Honey Bee Products used geographical information system, and cloud-processing tools, to investigate changes in forest flowering and the impacts… Read More
Programmed monitoring of bee flowering preferences
CRC for Honey Bee Products researchers successfully trialled video recording and analysis of flower visitors at test sites on Queensland's North Stradbroke Island. Many factors… Read More
A ‘honey’ business
The CRC for Honey Bee Products’ Natural Resources for Beekeepers Questionnaire marks a timely update on the state of beekeeping in Western Australia. Little was… Read More
Decision support for Noongar hive migration
CRC for Honey Bee Products researchers helped the Noongar Land Enterprise Group, an Indigenous collective promoting commercially viable Noongar land-based businesses, to reliably produce ngooka,… Read More
B-harmony: engaging for environmental stewardship
B-harmony is an innovative field-based stakeholder engagement tool to support beekeeper resource security. It provides a protocol for constructive engagement between industry, scientists and resource… Read More
B-Agent: modelling pressures on migratory beekeeping
The CRC for Honey Bee Products has developed the spatial modelling framework B-AGENTTM to help migratory beekeepers understand the effect of pressures on honey bee… Read More
B-Spatial: Future-proofing beehive site selection
B-spatialTM is a spatial decision support tool to help beekeepers select suitable apiary sites in a changing environment. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can facilitate the… Read More