In the spirit of St Valentine, who is the patron saint of beekeepers (in addition to holding a couple of other saintly portfolios), we bring you stories about apiculture and love. Bumblebees offer new hope for New Zealand?s primary industries: they're unaffected by the varroa mite, tolerant of cold, and able to pollinate in enclosed spaces. If only we knew how to build a nest they wanted to live in?

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In search of a better bee

In the spirit of St Valentine, patron saint of beekeepers, we bring you stories about apiculture and love.

Bumblebees offer new hope for New Zealand?s primary industries: they're unaffected by the varroa mite, tolerant of cold, and able to pollinate in enclosed spaces.

If only we knew how to build a nest they wanted to live in?

Truly, madly, deeply

Love has ever been intangible, but nowadays imaging technology has become so perceptive that we can finally see it, writ large as firework flashes across a brain-activity scan.

If you prefer love to remain a mystery, read no further.

#SundayDoco: The bee

As much as 30 per cent of all human food is directly or indirectly dependent on pollination by bees. And even their painful sting is useful...

Sniffer bees

Scientists at Plant & Food Research have trained honey bees to detect the scent of tuberculosis.

Good to bee back

Our colonisers sent us bumblebees. Now, thanks to the extinction of the short-haired bumblebee in Britain, they want them back again.

The plight of the humble bee

In April 2000, New Zealand honeybees received a death threat in the form of the varroa mite, an insect parasite which, if left uncontrolled, is capable of destroying hives and wiping out bees from entire regions.


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734KG OF WASTE, PER PERSON, PER YEAR

The government is vowing to cut the amount of waste New Zealanders create, which is estimated to be among the highest in the developed world.

TRAMPERS IGNORE TRACK CLOSURES

People in Auckland?s Waitakere Ranges are ignoring track closures designed to help prevent the spread of kauri dieback.

AN UNSUCCESSFUL SUMMER FOR PENGUINS

Yellow-eyed penguin numbers along the Otago and Southland coastlines have remained low for another breeding season.