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Canberra Region Beekeepers Beekeeping Scholarships 2020 – Round 2

11/10/2020 Michael Peoples 0

Are you between the ages of 16 to 24? Passionate about conservation? Want to learn how to be a beekeeper? On offer:• Free two-day course on Beekeeping for Beginners course and beekeeper’s suit.• One annual […]

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Bee Buzz Box September 2020 A History of Two-Queen Hives Part II – The first managed two-queen colonies

12/09/2020 Alan Wade 0

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 […]

Apis henshawi (Henshaw's Honey Bee) from the Oligocene Creské Stredhori Mountains, Czech Republic
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Bee Buzz Box August 2020 A History of Two-Queen Hives Part I – The origin of the single-queen colony

28/07/2020 Alan Wade Comments Off on 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

03/07/2020 Alan Wade 0

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

12/06/2020 Alan Wade 0

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

25/05/2020 Alan Wade 0

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 […]

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Bee Buzz Box – May 2020 Early forays into Two-queen Hive Management Part II – The Two-queen Heather Honey Flow System

18/05/2020 Alan Wade 0

Alan Wade and Frank Derwent When that old fox, Des Cannon1, told us that he once halved the number of hives he owned and got a whole lot more honey we wondered whether there might […]

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Bee Buzz Box – May 2020 Part II – The Two-queen and Doubled Hive Heather Flow

13/05/2020 Alan Wade 0

Alan Wade and Frank Derwent In searching for the origins of the two-queen hive, we discovered something rather more important than trying to get a hive to take a second queen on board. We learnt […]

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Bee Buzz Box – April 2020 Early forays into Two-queen Hive Management Part I – A Plurality of Queens

03/04/2020 Alan Wade 0

Alan Wade and Frank Derwent It would have been rewarding to have been a New York State beekeeper at the turn of the 19th Century. Any competent apiarist could have harvested almost as much honey […]

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A Native Bee ‘Login’ – Saturday 14 March 2020

03/04/2020 Alan Wade 0

Alan Wade and Peter Abbott Before you Logoff, we thought you might like news of a Club Login. In perhaps the last Canberra Region Beekeepers meeting for some time, four hardy individuals, Becky Dodds, the […]

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