Funding plunged into rogue bee fight

Ashley Walmsley
Updated August 27 2016 - 2:11pm, first published 12:00pm
LAUNCH ALLIES: Horticulture Innovation Australia CEO John Lloyd, Plant Food Research New Zealand head David Pattemore and Australian assistant minister for agriculture Anne Ruston at an Inglewoood plum and avocado farm launching the collaborative project which will identify how to eradicate bee diseases or manage them.
LAUNCH ALLIES: Horticulture Innovation Australia CEO John Lloyd, Plant Food Research New Zealand head David Pattemore and Australian assistant minister for agriculture Anne Ruston at an Inglewoood plum and avocado farm launching the collaborative project which will identify how to eradicate bee diseases or manage them.

AS feral hives of the dreaded Asian honeybee continue to be detected in Queensland, mega money is being channelled into protecting and learning more about Australia's current pint-sized pollinators.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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