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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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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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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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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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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