Increase in disease for beehives ‘concerning’ as more than 3000 destroyed in one year

More than 3000 beehives had to be destroyed in the year to May 2022, as the honey industry responded to record high cases of American Foulbrood disease. Read more

Tags : AFB DNA testing, American Foulbrood

Leave a Reply


MORE NEWS & INSIGHT

blog-featured-img

From the Kākāpō Files

The latest podcast on the Kākāpō Files features the rapid extraction method that John, our Technical Director, back from a…

blog-featured-img

AFB Case Study – AFB alert

We were expecting the alert here at the lab. The beekeeper had just left after he had brought his hives…

blog-featured-img

A ‘booming’ Kākāpō 2025/26 season

2026 is going to be a ‘booming’ (and possibly the largest) Kākāpō breeding season of fledglings. Kākāpō only breed when…