Bees
Niue bee bank
Beekeeper Andy Cory is trying to turn the tiny Pacific island of Niue into a safe haven for the world's honeybees. Video, Audio
Listener Feedback to Saturday 6 June 2015
Kim Hill reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 6 June. Audio
Bumblebees and flowers
Professor of biology at the University of Sussex, founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, and author of A Sting in the Tale, and A Buzz in the Meadow. Audio
New Zealand A to Z - Beekeeping
With hundreds of new beekeepers signing up for the hobby every year, there's a real buzz around the humble honey bee. As well as being a hot new hobby, beekeeping has long been a business in New… Audio
New Zealand's Smallest Bees
New Zealand has 28 species of native bee, that are either small, very small or extremely small in size and solitary by nature Audio
Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves
Isaac Brock, frontman for jaunty, literary indie-rock outfit Modest Mouse says he just "didn't really notice eight years go by." We speak to him about mushroom hunting, beekeeping, and the obsessive… Audio
Sovrano Limoncello
Andrea and Marzia Loggia are Italian. They arrived in New Zealand in 2007 and by 2009, from their Kerikeri property, they started producing limoncello. Both had family backgrounds in wine making or… Audio
Beekeeping takes off in schools.
Tens of thousands of bees buzzing on the doorsteps of primary school classrooms might sound like some parents' worst nightmare. Audio
Bee scientist Peter Dearden
Otago University Geneticist, Peter Dearden is an expert on the honey bee and works closely with the beekeeping industry in New Zealand. Peter says most feral bees have died out, so managed bees play a… Audio
Botany - don't mow the lawn, grow a meadow!
Plant ecologist Bec Stanley from Auckland Botanical Gardens on the chlorophyll-filled bio-mass that photosynthesises around us... don't mow the lawn, grow a meadow! Audio
Making a buzz in Auckland
Aucklanders are being encouraged to create their own pollen hotels to help 160,000 hungry honey bees currently foraging for food in the CBD. Audio
Better bumblebee nests
New Zealand's leading the world in designing more appealing nests for queen bumblebees. Dr David Pattemore is a pollination scientist at Plant & Food Research. Audio
Recipes using honey cordial from Jo Donnelly
Jo Donnelly is the co-owner, with her husband Ian Stewart, of artisan honey cordial company Bees Blessing based out of Kau Whero farm in the Mangaroa Valley. She brings recipes for Spiced Syrup… Audio
Bee-friendly Insecticides
University of Otago geneticist Peter Dearden is using the bee genome to develop a bee-friendly insecticide. Audio
Bee-friendly Insecticide
University of Otago geneticist Peter Dearden is using the bee genome to develop a bee-friendly insecticide. Audio
Swarm sensing
Paulo de Souza of the CSIRO is working on a 'swarm sensing' project that involves fitting 5000 tiny sensors to honeybees in Australia to understand more about colony collapse disorder and how insects… Audio
Bees and exhaust fumes
How engine exhausts interfere with honeybees' ability to forage for pollen and nectar. Professor Guy Poppy of The University of Southampton did the research. Audio
Sniffer Bees
Honeybees can be trained to react to particular odours such as those emitted by caterpillar-infested apple trees Audio
Honeybees
Bee expert Mark Goodwin explains how a beehive works and the state of bees in NZ Audio
Ideas for 14 April 2013
The honeybee is under threat around the world. Beekeepers in the United States are losing close to a third of their hives to Colony Collapse Disorder and things aren't looking much better in Europe… Audio