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Bee Buzz Box May 2021 – The Discovery of the Doubled Hive

06/05/2021 Alan and Lynne Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box May 2021 – The Discovery of the Doubled Hive

Alan Wade When George Wells announced a system of running hives with two queens it took the beekeeping community by storm. Lost to the beekeeping world for nearly a century and a quarter, an all-revealing […]

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Bee Buzz Box April 2021 The Honey Bee Queen Replacement Enigma – Part II Requeening Practice

31/03/2021 Alan and Lynne Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box April 2021 The Honey Bee Queen Replacement Enigma – Part II Requeening Practice

Direct requeening at Jerrabomberra Wetlands Apiary 7 November 2016 […]

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Bee Buzz Box March 2021 The Honey Bee Queen Replacement Enigma — Part I The Colony in Transition

22/02/2021 Alan and Lynne Wade Comments Off on Bee Buzz Box March 2021 The Honey Bee Queen Replacement Enigma — Part I The Colony in Transition

Direct requeening at Jerrabomberra Wetlands Apiary 2 November 2016 […]

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Bee Buzz Box – February 2021 Going Overboard Part II – Hive Lids, Bottom Boards and Feeders

26/01/2021 Alan and Lynne Wade 0

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 […]

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

02/12/2020 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

10/11/2020 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

19/10/2020 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

13/10/2020 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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Canberra Region Beekeepers Beekeeping Scholarships 2020 – Round 2

11/10/2020 Michael Peoples 0

Are you between the ages of 16 to 24? Passionate about conservation? Want to learn how to be a beekeeper? On offer:• Free two-day course on Beekeeping for Beginners course and beekeeper’s suit.• One annual […]

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

12/09/2020 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 […]

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