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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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box October 2017 -Establishing two queens instead of one queen in a honey bee colony Part I Principles of introducing and running two-queen colonies
Alan Wade The one colony – One queen principle One of the fundamental operating tenets of any honey bee colony is that it will support only one queen, an innate characteristic of the eleven or so […]
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Maxi Apiary Requeening
Spring requeening October 31 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm Swarm cells at margin of brood nest 12 November 2016 – well time to requeen Maxi Apiary Requeening Wed 31 October 2018 Category: Heavy Lifters working party […]
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Dreaming of Queening
Supersedure cells on comb face 2 November 2016 (offset – central comb area) – a good case to requeen To requeen or not In my long experience of running honey bee colonies, I’ve finally twigged […]
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Mini Apiary Requeening
Mini Apiary Requeening Wed 17 October 2018 Category: Heavy Lifters working party Marked queens are easier to find and their loss is a signal that supersedure has likely taken place […]
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Heavy Lifters Winter Apiary Bash and BBQ
What we’ll be doing As bees don’t sleep, I guess there is no reason to entirely forget club bees: no rest for the wicked. Time to unpack the gear back from Steritech to check that […]
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Bee Buzz Box May 2018 -Warming to Swarming
Should you prevent swarming? While many natural beekeepers advocate allowing bees to swarm, and there is perhaps some merit in allowing them to do so [see Tom Seeley’s Darwinian Beekeeping Seeley-2017-Darwinian-Beekeeping-An-Evolutionary-Approach-to-Apiculture], there is a very a […]
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Honey bee colony disease inspection guide and support services
Honey Bee Disease One Stop Shop – updated 13.12.2018 The Beekeepers Association of the ACT and Region has created a guide for inspecting honey bee colonies. It includes comprehensive reading material from the likes of the […]
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Apiary Autumn Closedown Saturday 7 April 2018
Hello Heavy Lifters In retrospect With an exceptional season at an end and shortening days, it’s again time to close bees down for winter. We’ve watched a late season light honey and a strong pollen […]