ANU Apiculture

1 follower = 1 year. For the next 1000 years (until the present day) we'll be exploring historical references to bees. #historyofbees 🐝🐝🐝🍯

Massachusetts woman set swarms of insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict elderly man with cancer #Echobox=1777379009" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…

Major setback for beekeepers as varroa mite chemical resistance detected again abc.net.au/news/2026-04-1…

Hobby beekeepers urged to check for varroa mite as more than 1,000 ACT beehives destroyed abc.net.au/news/2026-04-0…

Honey as a superfood: can it really heal wounds, fight superbugs and provide sweet relief for coughs?theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Varroa mite investigation rules out illegal imports but fails to find source of deadly incursion abc.net.au/news/2026-03-1…

Bush hives dying, beekeepers challenged as treatment-resistant varroa mites spread abc.net.au/news/rural/202…

How an annual ‘wedding flight’ of 1,000 virgin queens is ensuring the revival of Europe’s dark bee theguardian.com/environment/20…

50 years ago tonight, January 17, 1976, the recurring SNL “Killer Bees” sketch accidentally launched the Blues Brothers. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, in full bee gear, tore into the Slim Harpo’s 1957 swamp blues classic “I’m a King Bee”… and Blues Brothers were born.

Varroa mite is expected to infest ACT beehives and destroy about half of them over the next two years. abc.net.au/news/2025-12-2…

Bee-autifully crafted gold ornament in the form of a little bee! 🐝 ❤️ Length 1.90 cm. From Minoan Crete, circa 1700-1600 BC. 📷 British Museum britishmuseum.org/collection/obj… #Archaeology

Did you know? Stingless bees like the Melipona species in Mexico (e.g., Melipona beecheii, sacred to the Maya) and Brazil don't build those perfect hexagonal honeycombs we know from honeybees. Instead, they construct horizontal brood combs for larvae and store their precious, medicinal honey in separate wax-resin pots—a unique tropical adaptation! 🐝🍯 🎥 meliponariosbk

Testing on supermarket imported honey finds some is not all honey abc.net.au/news/2025-12-1…

In space, raw honey doesn't flow as it does on Earth. Without gravity pulling it down, it forms floating, sticky blobs that stretch and cling unpredictably.

I often talk about material engineering in clothes. But first, let's do an experiment. Which of these two outfits do you think will be better at protecting the wearer from bees? 🧵

Canadian apiary store owner foils honey heist by marauding swarm of ‘robber bees’ theguardian.com/world/2025/sep…

It's capital K with a hyphen then the numeral 9 when referring to K-9 working dogs, like Maple the former K-9 now working to sniff out threats to Michigan State University bee colonies. apnews.com/video/former-k…

Bees don't fly in the dark

I was terrified of bees – until the day 30,000 of them moved into my house theguardian.com/environment/20…

Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝 Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum #full-artwork-details" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">getty.edu/art/collection… #Archaeology

Truck carrying 250m honeybees overturns by US-Canada border theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…