Alan Wade In last month’s Bee Buzz Box we rabbited on about how to prevent swarming. Stopping swarming gets your bees to put honey into hives rather than into neighbours’ cavity walls. Letting bees swarm […]
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 […]
Direct requeening at Jerrabomberra Wetlands Apiary 7 November 2016 […]
Direct requeening at Jerrabomberra Wetlands Apiary 2 November 2016 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Alan Wade The honey bee colony is almost always headed by a single queen irrespective of its natural or managed state. However finding a second queen is not uncommon. It routinely occurs when colonies are […]