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Category: Hives

To Flow Hive or not to Flow Hive

31 October 2020 - 17 December 2020 Tony

I get a lot of calls from people wanting to establish a Flow Hive. They have seen the website and YouTubes and it’s so easy. Set up, come back, turn the tap and hey presto – honey. I also get calls from others who can’t get out the back door without themselves, their children and
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No good

30 October 2020 - 3 November 2020 Tony

When down to the Collingwood Children’s Farm on Monday to check their 9 hives. The sun was out and it was going to be a warm day with a possible shower or two in the afternoon. All the hives were active with bees flying in and out, bar one. In the front of this hive
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Up a Ladder

13 October 2020 - 18 October 2020 Tony

I had just finished checking my last hive and turned my attention to picking peas from my community garden lot when the phone rang and was called out to a swarm from a hive from I hive that had inspected a while back. When I got there, the bees were 3 metres up a tree
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Urgent Action

11 October 2020 Tony

I got called out by a beekeeper as their hive had sent out a small swarm and they were concerned that they had lost their queen. I made time to go out and have a look as the hive may send out a larger swarm or after-swarms if action is not taken. The beekeeper had
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Hive splitting

8 October 2020 - 11 October 2020 Tony

The sun came out occasionally yesterday and I was able to requeen two hives and split two others. The hive splitting were quick jobs as I had all ready Demareed the hives so that brood and nurse bees were in the top box. The strategy adopted was to have two hives on the same hive
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Queens

7 October 2020 - 11 October 2020 Tony

My first order of new queens for the season have arrived and the weather is not good which will slow things down. I should be able to setup nucleus over the next few days during bursts of good weather. I’ll update you as the progress and outcome. Update: 9 October 2020 All the queens are
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Swarm prevention and spitting

5 October 2020 - 11 October 2020 Tony

It’s spring and a week ago I did my rounds checking if hives were preparing to swarm. 7 hives were looking as if they were on the verge and I internal split them using the Demaree method. The weather looked good yesterday, just before a cool change. So I went around to check all the
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