The Beekeeper June

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NEW ZEALAND BEEKEEPER, JUNE 2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Star performers part 4: Lacebarks for autumn pollen and nectar Apiculture health and safety programme formed Wanganui Beekeepers’ Club successfully appeals abatement notice Bee educated at Limehills School Wide-ranging discussions at South Canterbury field day

Myrtle rust arrives in New Zealand

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Conference update

Chemical changes in maturing manuka honey How do labs conduct the MPI manuka tests? Visit to Bayer Bee Care: Monheim am Rhein, Germany Obituary: Terence Charles Gavin (Terry) Manuka Health unveils $3.5 million Wairarapa Agriculture Centre

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From the colonies

Keep your hives disease free

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Front cover: Myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) on myrtus communis (common myrtle). Photo: Forest and Kim Starr, Starr Environmental. https://www.flickr.com/photos/starr-environmental/24278125284/sizes/l This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. Some rights reserved by Starr Environmental. Photograph orientation changed from landscape to portrait. Link shared courtesy of the Ministry for Primary Industries.

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Wellington 6146 Ph: 04 471 6254 APICULTURE NZ BOARD REPRESENTATIVES: Dennis Crowley

Barry Foster Stuart Fraser Sean Goodwin John Hartnell Ricki Leahy

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Peter Luxton Russell Marsh Paul Martin Bruce Wills (Chair)

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