Alan Wade What do bees use to reorganise themselves when they are dropped off a frame outside the hive or the hive topples over? How do bees maintain cohesion when migrating as a swarm? Why […]
Alan Wade As in other animals, there are two types of glandular chemicals that regulate honey bee behaviour: primer pheromones and releaser pheromonesi. Primer pheromones act at a physiological level, triggering complex and long-term responses […]
Alan Wade, Des Cannon and Dave Flanagan In an unlikely tale of rivers of honey, we recently stumbled across two extraordinary beekeepers. One of them turned out to be Dave Flanagan, now a helpful author. […]
Alan Wade Phoresis or phoresy is a non-permanent, commensalistic interaction in which one organism (a phoront or phoretic) attaches itself to another (the host) solely for the purpose of travel… Phoresis is rooted in the […]
Greg Dojchinov, Cormac Farrell and Alan Wade Way back in May 1918 Canberra Region Beekeepers produced a general guide for honey bee disease control. It’s still there on the club website and you can check […]
Alan Wade In last month’s Bee Buzz Box we rabbited on about how to prevent swarming. Stopping swarming gets your bees to put honey into hives rather than into neighbours’ cavity walls. Letting bees swarm […]
Direct requeening at Jerrabomberra Wetlands Apiary 7 November 2016 […]
Direct requeening at Jerrabomberra Wetlands Apiary 2 November 2016 […]
Alan Wade and Frank Derwent In our December exposé, we introduced ourselves to the mysteries of the bee shed. We described an array of hive dividers that help the beekeeper maintain some measure of control […]
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 […]