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Beekeeping in New Zealand started as a home craft in the 1850s, not long after initial European settlement and is now an established industry as well as being a hobby activity. ==Industry== New Zealand had 4,814 registered beekeepers in September 2014, who owned more than 500,000 hives in over 30,000 apiaries.〔Farm Monitoring Report NZ- Apiculture Report 2014〕 In 2013/14 total honey production was 17.6 thousand tonnes. The production of manuka honey, valued for its antibacterial properties, is increasingly important. Pollen, beeswax, and propolis are also produced and exported. Beekeepers provide pollination services to horticulturists, which used to generate more income than the products of bee culture. However,rising honey prices have pushed pollination fees to keep up. Approximately 42 thousand live queen bees, and 38 tonnes of packaged bees (which include approximately one kilogram of worker bees to support the queen) are exported live each year.〔Farm Monitoring Report NZ- Apiculture Report 2014〕 The National Beekeepers' Association of New Zealand established "National Bee Week".〔(National Bee Week ) – National Beekeepers' Association of New Zealand〕 The Green Party are calling for a phase out of pesticides that are toxic to bees as is happening in the European Union.〔(Stop poisoning Bees )〕 Honey containing the poisonous tutin can be produced by bees feeding on honeydew produced by sap-sucking vine hopper insects (''Scolypopa'' genus) feeding on tutu, a plant native to New Zealand.〔(Background on toxic honey ), New Zealand Food Safety Authority〕 The last recorded deaths from eating honey containing tutin were in the 1890s.〔Johnston, Martin. (Specialists expected tutin honey outbreak ), New Zealand Herald. 26 March 2008.〕 In May 2011 there were fears the colony collapse disorder had begun in New Zealand. Losses of up to 30% had been reported with Canterbury and Poverty Bay being hardest hit. This suspicion was not confirmed, but high losses with an etiology matching CCD could be observed in parts of the North Island in 2015,〔http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/70690694/bee-deaths-raise-fears-of-colony-collapse〕 reigniting these fears. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beekeeping in New Zealand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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