ANU Apiculture

A student-led initiative at @ourANU focused on bees, beekeeping and sustainability. Curating bee news and exploring cross-disciplinary perspectives on bees!

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

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 For the next 1000 years (until the present day) we'll be exploring historical references to bees.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

[TasteAtlas @TasteAtlas]

Wild Honey Harvest
📍West Java, Indonesia 🇮🇩

Explore Java: https://t.co/lScEER93rA

In the dense jungles of Indonesia, honey harvesting is an extreme test of courage. Local hunters scale massive trees, reaching heights that would make most people’s heads spin, all to track down the legendary wild beehives of West Java.

There are no professional suits or high tech gear here. This is raw, traditional harvesting that relies on steady hands, perfect balance, and nerves of steel. The hunters brave thousands of wild bees to cut away massive, dripping honeycombs, ensuring they only take what the forest can spare.

The result is a liquid gold unlike anything you find on a supermarket shelf. This wild honey is intense, unpasteurized, and packed with the floral complexity of the Indonesian canopy. It is a dangerous, vertical journey for a single bite of the purest sweetness on earth.

Video by @madunsimadutea

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

Massachusetts woman set swarms of insects on sheriff’s deputies attempting to evict elderly man with cancer
https://t.co/rHQW7l3Udc

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

Major setback for beekeepers as varroa mite chemical resistance detected again
https://t.co/IL8uYnRZGB

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

Hobby beekeepers urged to check for varroa mite as more than 1,000 ACT beehives destroyed https://t.co/SyQTC3ODsQ

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

Honey as a superfood: can it really heal wounds, fight superbugs and provide sweet relief for coughs?https://t.co/Jvagg9rM19

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

Varroa mite investigation rules out illegal imports but fails to find source of deadly incursion
https://t.co/jNQNGWMOJk

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

Bush hives dying, beekeepers challenged as treatment-resistant varroa mites spread
https://t.co/QFOdOnpmYO

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

How an annual ‘wedding flight’ of 1,000 virgin queens is ensuring the revival of Europe’s dark bee https://t.co/Xn2u7Ii3fs

[Boston Radio Watch®️ @bostonradio]

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.

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

Varroa mite is expected to infest ACT beehives and destroy about half of them over the next two years.
https://t.co/XNrOJ36ZTA

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

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 https://t.co/vTQg2bzO5C

#Archaeology

[Dreams N Science @dreamsNscience]

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

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

Testing on supermarket imported honey finds some is not all honey https://t.co/5PkTo4oW7d

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

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.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

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? 🧵

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

Canadian apiary store owner foils honey heist by marauding swarm of ‘robber bees’
https://t.co/wIeRqjvPAv

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

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.
https://t.co/T9rtJbMsyN

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Bees don't fly in the dark

[ANU Apiculture @ANU_Bees]

I was terrified of bees – until the day 30,000 of them moved into my house https://t.co/2T4oykNqAt

[Alison Fisk @AlisonFisk]

Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝

Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC.

Photo Getty Museum https://t.co/dZ14Vg5nTu

#Archaeology