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Bee Buzz Box March 2021 The Honey Bee Queen Replacement Enigma — Part I The Colony in Transition
Direct requeening at Jerrabomberra Wetlands Apiary 2 November 2016 […]
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Bee Buzz Box – February 2021 Going Overboard Part II – Hive Lids, Bottom Boards and Feeders
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box – December 2020 Going Overboard Part I – Hive Dividers
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box November 2020 The History of Two-Queen Hives Part IV – The two-queen consolidated brood nest hive
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box October 2020 A History of Two-Queen Hives Part III – Commercial two-queen hive operations
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box September 2020 A History of Two-Queen Hives Part II – The first managed two-queen colonies
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box August 2020 A History of Two-Queen Hives Part I – The origin of the single-queen colony
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 […]
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Bee Buzz Box July 2020 – Bee Space
Alan Wade and Frank Derwent Many beekeepers make claim to understanding bee space. Indeed it is one of the fundamentals tenets of beekeeping that is taught to beginners. Anything bigger than a bee space will […]
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Bee Buzz Box June 2020 – Bushfarms online: A veritable Beekeeper’s goldmine
Club group learning before COVID-19. Conducted by Alan Wade, Frank Derwent and Agnes Koros. 28 September 2019 Apiary […]
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Bee Buzz Box March 2019 Summer in Retrospect
Alan Wade A dreamy reflection This summer the club and I have run nine two-queen hives, four in the wetlands apiary and five at my home and on a pleasant box woodland block in Narrabundah […]