Bees are suffering from starvation and hives have died following erratic weather patterns in South Australia that have been blamed for an 80 per cent drop in honey yield.
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| Apiarists are reporting lower-than-average bee numbers. |
Hot spells followed by cold and wet periods throughout spring and early summer has resulted in some plants flowering haphazardly, or not at all, leaving many bees without enough food.
Hackham apiarist Bill Hawkes has been removing hives and bee swarms on behalf of the State Government and councils for 45 years.
In an average year he will remove 20 to 30 a week, but this year he said he had been lucky to get three jobs a week, with a lot of them for European wasps.
Read the ABC News story by Malcolm Sutton - “Bees 'starving' in South Australia as erratic weather takes heavyBees 'starving' in South Australia as erratic weather takes heavy toll on hives, honey yields.”
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