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Building Bees for the Honey Flow
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
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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Bee Buzz Box – October 2019 – David and Goliath Requeening
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box – August 2019 Building Bees for the Honey Flow
“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 […]
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Pollinator networks July 2019
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box – July 2019 Art thou a skeppist? Part II From the skep to the modern frame hive
Frank Derwent and Alan Wade In Part I of this series we examined the origins and the practice of skep beekeeping. With that narrative behind us, we now examine how this ancient way of keeping […]
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Bee Buzz Box – June 2019 Art thou a skeppist? Part I The origins and practice of skep beekeeping
Alan Wade and Frank Derwent In this two-part series we examine first the lost art of skepping and its transition to the modern and robust frame hive. To begin we trace the origins and practice […]
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Putting Bees on Notice
Alan Wade As individuals, we all experience collective amnesia whenever it’s time to decide what to do next. We muddle along, sometimes making ill-advised choices, if not first overtaken by events. Bees are somewhat different. […]
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Bee Buzz Box – May 2019 Do you carry a spare tyre?
Bee Buzz Box – May 2019 Alan Wade No, Bee Buzz Box is not trying to cast aspersions on your midriff. But everyone carries a spare in their boot. It is ready and inflated when […]
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Bee Buzz Box November 2017 – Establishing two queens instead of one queen in a honey bee colony Part II Setting up two-queen colonies
Alan Wade Hives with two queens In Part I we explored the ‘The one colony – One queen principle’, the universal condition of the honey bee colony. That two or more queens might be introduced […]