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 […]
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 […]
Alan Wade and Frank Derwent It would have been rewarding to have been a New York State beekeeper at the turn of the 19th Century. Any competent apiarist could have harvested almost as much honey […]
Alan Wade and Peter Abbott Before you Logoff, we thought you might like news of a Club Login. In perhaps the last Canberra Region Beekeepers meeting for some time, four hardy individuals, Becky Dodds, the […]
Frank Derwent and Alan Wade Wild about hives If you were seeking an impartial arbiter of the best designed house for a honey bee colony, you might go no further than to examine the architecture […]
Alan Wade In the last Bee Buzz Box we introduced ourselves to doubled hives, examining the essential difference between them and two-queen hives. We then explored the modern version of the doubled hive, one that […]