By the 1980s Buckfast bees were sold across the world. Bee breeders are rare. Brother Adam had become something even rarer: an apiculture celebrity. A syringe places a minute droplet of phenothrin ...

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“After re-hiving, we requeened the colonies with docile Italian DNA from a queen bee breeder to make them less defensive. The bees and the rooftop garden thrive together in a healthy ecosystem ...

The NSW south coast's only queen bee breeder is using instrumental insemination to breed colonies resistant to varroa mite. It's a delicate process that only about 50 Australians are trained to do.

Source: RSPB Formerly very rare breeders in the UK, this year marks the seventh breeding attempt in England in the past 20 years, the bird charity said. Eight Bee-eaters were a sensation when they ...