Summary: How Are Honeybees Doing? - As you’ll doubtless have heard, around the world there’s concern about honeybees – they are having a tough time, what with the varroa mite, increased pesticide usage (including neonics), agricultural monocultures (reducing good nectar and pollen foraging areas) and hive migration (for pollination) the bees are getting a hard time. Here we talk to Ash Samuelson. Ash has been visiting Dunedin for some R&R but has just finished her doctoral work at Royal Holloway Uni in London – comparing how well rural and urban bees are doing This show was broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
