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NZ Radio Awards 2009
13 March, 2010
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12 - Toxic Tutu
- Toxic tutu
- How to avoid producing toxic honey tainted with tutin. (duration: 12′18″)
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Toxic honey's been in the news recently. A beekeeper's just been charged for selling poisoned honey that made more than 20 people sick. The culprit's tutin, a toxin that gets produced when bees gather honeydew from the sap-sucking vine hopper insect on tutu bushes (photo here). So if you're a backyard beekeeper what should you be doing to avoid poisoning your nearest and dearest? Here’s a new standard on tutin.
Jim and Simon under Tutu bush
Resources
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Bee Photos
A gallery of images.
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Honey Harvest
A gallery of images.
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Bee Chased
If you have too much time on your hands!
Episodes
- 1 - Meet the beekeeper
- 2 - Hive location
- 3 - Catching a swarm of bees
- 4 - Building the hive
- 5 - Arrival of the bees
- 6 - Merging swarm with hive
- 7 - Hive check-up
- 8 - Pre-Xmas visit
- 9 - Trouble in the Hive
- 10 - New queen on the block
- 11 - Colony Collapse Disorder
- 12 - Toxic Tutu
- 13 - Beehive Check
- 14 - Honey Extraction
- 15 - A Taste of Honey
- 16 - Varroa treatment
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