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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Requeening colonies at Jerrabomberra Wetlands Thursday 8 March 11 am – 4 pm The club apiary ‘early autumn’ requeening program is now in full swing. Following up on queen marking on the 21st of February […]
Requeening, Disease Inspection and Overwintering Preparation Hive type Hive code Queen condition (colour marking) Queen source Intro-duction date Action/Notes Paradise nuc 2x6F N05 Eval (Y) AQBL Italian 12.10.2016 Use for observation hive/requeening 2Q 3 ½ […]
On 13th January 2018 The Association held its first ever member focused honey extraction day. With two sold out sessions we eventually opened up our waiting list and saw around 70 beekeepers from newbie to […]
Yep, here it is, a sentinel hive Club versus Sentinel Hives Sentinel Hives are this dreadful Lickedy Lick colour and all frames have the same identifying colour spotted onto their top bars. Apiary club hives […]
Closure of Bruce Apiary The Bruce TAFE Apiary is now finally closed. Special thanks are extended to John Grubb for assistance in maintaining the apiary over the past twelve months and to Dermot AsIs Sha’Non […]