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 […]
Alan Wade Doubling hives is a remarkably old-fashioned way of keeping bees. I should know as I am of that ilk. But what is doubling and how does it differ from running common-or-garden single-queen hives […]
Alan Wade and Dannielle Harden Last month we discussed a couple of simple ways to get caged mailed queens safely into hives. We looked at some nifty tricks (Figure 1) to avoid having to find […]
Jerrabomberra Wetlands Apiary Saturday 28 September 201908.30-16.00 Canberra Region Beekeepers will conduct a hands on workshop exploring time-honoured methods for building bee numbers quickly and intervening to prevent swarming. The singular objective of the course […]
Alan Wade and Frank Derwent Last month we touched on building bees for the honey flow and examined the exigencies of swarm control. We glazed over the topic of requeening, a key way to keep […]
Building bees for the honey flow Alan Wade, Frank Derwent and Agnes Koros By now Canberra Region Beekeepers’ bees stirred, unseen, will be raising brood and tucking into their dwindling winter stores. So what might […]
A retrospective of CSIRO’s Dr. Francisco Encinas-Viso’s talk on the changing dynamics of insect gathering plant resources For those privileged enough to be at the Wednesday 18 July 2019 meeting of Canberra Region Beekeepers they […]
Art thou a skeppist? Part II From the skep to the modern frame hive Frank Derwent and Alan Wade In Part I of this series we examined the origins and the practice of skep beekeeping. […]
Art thou a skeppist? Part I The origins and practice of skep beekeeping Alan Wade and Frank Derwent In this two-part series we examine first the lost art of skepping and its transition to the […]
Alan Wade As individuals, we all experience collective amnesia whenever it’s time to decide what to do next. We muddle along, sometimes making ill-advised choices, if not first overtaken by events. Bees are somewhat different. […]