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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 1

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

13 May 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

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

3 April 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

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

3 April 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

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

15 March 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

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

10 February 2020 Alan and Lynne Wade 1

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

9 December 2019 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

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 […]

A queen getting all the attention she needs 4 May 2019
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Bee Buzz Box – November 2019 – Raising Cain, Raising Queens

11 November 2019 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

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 […]

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Building Bees for the Honey Flow

10 October 2019 Michael Peoples 0

Beekeeper Alan Wade recently spoke at the September meeting on how to build strong bee colonies to make the best of early Spring honey flows. For access to the powerpoint used please click here.

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Honey Bee Colony Building & Swarm Control Workshop – 28 September 2019

22 September 2019 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

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 […]

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