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Month: May 2020

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Bee Buzz Box March 2019 Summer in Retrospect

25/05/2020 Alan Wade 0

Alan Wade A dreamy reflection This summer the club and I have run nine two-queen hives, four in the wetlands apiary and five at my home and on a pleasant box woodland block in Narrabundah […]

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Bee Buzz Box – May 2020 Early forays into Two-queen Hive Management Part II – The Two-queen Heather Honey Flow System

18/05/2020 Alan Wade 0

Alan Wade and Frank Derwent When that old fox, Des Cannon1, told us that he once halved the number of hives he owned and got a whole lot more honey we wondered whether there might […]

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Bee Buzz Box – May 2020 Part II – The Two-queen and Doubled Hive Heather Flow

13/05/2020 Alan Wade 0

Alan Wade and Frank Derwent In searching for the origins of the two-queen hive, we discovered something rather more important than trying to get a hive to take a second queen on board. We learnt […]

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