Unseasonal weather hits national honey crop  Updated February
14, 2013 14:04:00  Beekeepers are warning of a smaller honey
crop this year as hot and dry weather in the south hits
production, with some even struggling to keep their bees alive.
The Queensland floods are adding to the problem but the industry
says honey in storage should make up for the shortfall.  Source:
The World Today | Duration: 3min 11sec  Topics: food-and-
beverage, weather, qld, australia   ELEANOR HALL: The severe
weather that's hit much of Australia in recent months is taking
its toll on honey producers.  Hot, dry weather in the south has
hit the food sources for bees and in Queensland hundreds of
hives were lost in the floods.  As Rebecca Brice reports.
REBECCA BRICE: Norm Pope is an apiarist from the Eyre Peninsula
in South Australia. Last month the state recorded its driest
January in 24 years and that's hit his honey production.  NORM
POPE: We've only got 30 per cent of our normal crop. We had bees
on Mallee and the Mallee was flow