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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 – April 2019 Should I feed my Dog?
Alan Wade Should I feed my dog? In a new series of articles, Bee Buzz Box will challenge traditional beliefs that are more folklore than reality. Some ‘time-established’ practices may not be in the best […]
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Bee Buzz Box February 2019 Bees in Summer
Bee Buzz Box Bees in Summer February 2019 Alan Wade Bounteous summer is the season bees have to have. However Australian summer heatwaves would seem rather too cooky for our bees as these insects evolved […]
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Bee Buzz Box January 2019
Bee Buzz Box January 2019 Where Rust and Moth Doth Corrupt Alan Wade Frontispiece: Wax Moth pupae Victorian Department of Agriculture Old comb is an easy meal for wax moths. To the beginner or unwary, […]
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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 November 2018 Social organisation of ants, bees and wasps Part I – The origins of eusociality
Alan Wade All together altogether We often take for granted that bees work cooperatively and then it would seem of their own volition? We would be quite surprised were we hive a swarm only to […]
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Bee Buzz Box December 2018 Social organisation of ants, bees and wasps Part II – The eusocial Hymenoptera fauna
Alan Wade Polistes chinesis 47 cell nest (above and below) from Jerrabomberra Wetlands Polistes humilis from Fogg Dam NT August 2018 In Part I, we briefly examined the origins of advanced eusocial behaviour amongst ants, […]
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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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Bee Buzz Box June 2018 Winter in the Apiary
Alan Wade In the two previous blogs we’ve visited autumn closedown. Trouble is this year, any boxes of stickies that have been put back on hives for clean up were promptly refilled. Take the illustrated […]
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Bee Buzz Box July 2018 – Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men
Alan Wade Robert Banker an apiarist to emulate In the mid 1970’s, Robert Banker, a major collaborator in the revision of the standard text The Hive and the Honey Bee, vice-president of Apimondia and the […]