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The Bee Card is an electronic fare payment smart card that is used on bus services in ten regions of New Zealand, along with Queenstown Ferries and the Te Huia train service between Hamilton and Auckland. It is used as a tag-on tag-off card on buses, with paper tickets remaining available for use for each of the individual region's public ...
Isaac Hopkins (1837–1925) has been called the “father of beekeeping” in New Zealand. [4] He arrived in 1858 and went on to become a successful beekeeper, government apiarist and inspector of apiaries. He is the author of The illustrated New Zealand bee manual (1881) and The illustrated Australasian bee manual (1886).
Wall Painting on Main Road at Katikati. Before the 2023 census, the town had a smaller boundary, covering 9.53 km 2 (3.68 sq mi). [1] Using that boundary, Katikati had a population of 5,010 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 915 people (22.3%) since the 2013 census, and an increase of 1,386 people (38.2%) since the 2006 census ...
Native bees to New Zealand, as compared to the introduced species like the honeybee, do not have the ability to sting. Other key differences include a shorter tongue that evolved to best collect nectar from New Zealand Native Flowers. Physically they are smaller than species like the Honey Bee and have less yellow and more dark/black coloration ...
Leioproctus boltoni is a species of bee in the family of plasterer bees. [2] This species was first described in 1904 and is endemic to New Zealand. They are a solitary bee, small and black in appearance. L. boltoni can be found throughout the main islands of New Zealand and forages on the flowers of both native and introduced species of plants ...
Western Bay of Plenty District covers 1,944.41 km 2 (750.74 sq mi) [1] and had an estimated population of 62,000 as of June 2024, [2] with a population density of 32 people per km 2. 2,860 live in Waihi Beach, 5,920 in Katikati, and 10,500 in Te Puke.
Dorothy Morris was a pioneer of the kiwifruit industry in New Zealand who she converted her dairy farm on Kauri Point Road to kiwifruit in the 1950s. [9] George Vesey Stewart, who organised settlement of Katikati in the 1870s, initially planned for the town to be established at Kauri Point. [10]
Leioproctus fulvescens is a species of solitary bee belonging to the family Colletidae. This bee is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, and its yellow-orange hair distinguishes it from all other New Zealand species of Leioproctus .