Alan Wade As in other animals, there are two types of glandular chemicals that regulate honey bee behaviour: primer pheromones and releaser pheromonesi. Primer pheromones act at a physiological level, triggering complex and long-term responses […]
Alan Wade and Dannielle HardenCanberra Region Beekeepers Teaser for Somerset Beekeepers’ Association Webinar 6 January 2022 The gamble of running multi-queen colonies ‘According to Hoyle’ Edmond Hoylei (1672 – 1769) is famous for establishing game of […]
Alan Wade, Des Cannon and Dave Flanagan In an unlikely tale of rivers of honey, we recently stumbled across two extraordinary beekeepers. One of them turned out to be Dave Flanagan, now a helpful author. […]
Alan Wade Phoresis or phoresy is a non-permanent, commensalistic interaction in which one organism (a phoront or phoretic) attaches itself to another (the host) solely for the purpose of travel… Phoresis is rooted in the […]
Greg Dojchinov, Cormac Farrell and Alan Wade Way back in May 1918 Canberra Region Beekeepers produced a general guide for honey bee disease control. It’s still there on the club website and you can check […]
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 There are really rather too many good texts on building honey bees for the flow, but the topic of getting bees to their maximum strength and keeping them that way without swarming is […]
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 […]
Library NewsWhat books are found in the Australian category? Read on. Our club library collection is now sorted into 8 categories which reflect the current interests of our borrowing members. The library catalogue is located […]