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Bee Buzz Box June 2020 – Bushfarms online: A veritable Beekeeper’s goldmine
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
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
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
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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Bee Buzz Box – April 2020 Early forays into Two-queen Hive Management Part I – A Plurality of Queens
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 […]
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A Native Bee ‘Login’ – Saturday 14 March 2020
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box – March 2020 Honey Bee Hive Architecture
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box February 2020 Doubling Hives – Part II The Wells System
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box December 2019 Doubling Hives – Part I Doubled vs Two-Queen Hives
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box – November 2019 – Raising Cain, Raising Queens
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 […]