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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
“Special Bonus Issue” 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 we do to […]
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 […]