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Bee Buzz Box – December 2020 Going Overboard Part I – Hive Dividers

2 December 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

Alan Wade and Frank Derwent Ever thought that most beekeepers were a kangaroo short in the top paddock. Then try breaking into a beekeepers’ shed to confirm your long-held suspicions. Let’s start with the discovery […]

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Vote 1 Requeen Now

10 November 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

Alan Wade When warming to swarming becomes an overheated warning Of the fifty or so hives I’ve checked this season of ‘bees on steroids’, most had either swarmed or had prepared to do so. Of […]

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Bee Buzz Box November 2020 The History of Two-Queen Hives Part IV – The two-queen consolidated brood nest hive

19 October 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

Alan Wade In Part III of this series we described various iterations of the Farrar-system of two-queen hives, piggybacked single-queen colonies. Each brood chamber had its own entrance and honey supers. Early in the season […]

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Bee Buzz Box October 2020 A History of Two-Queen Hives Part III – Commercial two-queen hive operations

13 October 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

Alan Wade Many advances in the operation of two-queen hives were made in the post war years including those made by Holzberleini(1953-1955), Millerii (1953), Latif and coworkersiii (1955-1960), and Haydak and Dietziv (1967). Commercial two-queen […]

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Bee Buzz Box September 2020 A History of Two-Queen Hives Part II – The first managed two-queen colonies

12 September 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

Alan Wade One of the earliest records of the existence of sustained presence of two queens in a hive comes from G.M. Doolittle’s 1889 book Scientific Queen-Rearingi, providing an account of queen supersedure: After I […]

Apis henshawi (Henshaw's Honey Bee) from the Oligocene Creské Stredhori Mountains, Czech Republic
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Bee Buzz Box August 2020 A History of Two-Queen Hives Part I – The origin of the single-queen colony

28 July 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

Alan Wade The honey bee colony is almost always headed by a single queen irrespective of its natural or managed state. However finding a second queen is not uncommon. It routinely occurs when colonies are […]

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Bee Buzz Box July 2020 – Bee Space

3 July 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

Alan Wade and Frank Derwent Many beekeepers make claim to understanding bee space. Indeed it is one of the fundamentals tenets of beekeeping that is taught to beginners. Anything bigger than a bee space will […]

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Bee Buzz Box June 2020 – Bushfarms online: A veritable Beekeeper’s goldmine

12 June 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

Club group learning before COVID-19. Conducted by Alan Wade, Frank Derwent and Agnes Koros. 28 September 2019 Apiary […]

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Bee Buzz Box March 2019 Summer in Retrospect

25 May 2020 Alan and Lynne 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 May 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 5

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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