A quick update for anyone interested... Yesterday I fed one hive - they had virtually no honey stores at all but a heap of bees and brood. The other hive I...
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Hi yesterday I went outside and I saw that there was a swarm hanging on my hedge not far from my hive. I dressed up and shook the swarm into a new hive with...
Very exciting Liz, well done!! I'm also a beginner so don't have much useful advice for you I'm afraid. From what I know, there's not a lot to do or worry...
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I would do nothing in the short term. Let the bees settle and see if the new queen is satisfactory. In the longer term you need to decide how many hives you...
... From: "conderliz" ... Hopefully they have stayed put. One problem that a new beekeeper has is that they will not usually have much spare gear. A swarm is...
... From: "heyrakes" ... There is no obvious difference between supersedure cells and swarm cells, and certainly not in position on the frame. The bees will...
Sorry for not replying Heyrakes, I overlooked your mail. No I didn't notice any queen cells, though that doesn't mean there were none there! Thanks for the...
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Hi, Would anyone be familiar with doing pollination on stone fruit? I need stocking rates (colonies per ha) for medium to high density plantings (600-900 trees...
... From: "queenbee" Have a look at http://www.beeculture.com/content/pollination_handbook/index.cfm Trevor Weatherhead Further to Trevor's excellent...
Each Weekend we put a little honey stand out the front of our place so the locals can stop and buy some of the Mt Gravatt Honey. We're charging $3 per jar and...
Australian beekeepers might like to know that there is a paper in the US that shows that the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus has been in the US since at least...
Trevor, please send the link to that paper and if you or any other in the list knows which are the symptoms (appearence) of a dead bee from IAPV I would...
The best link I know of to learn about CCD is the www.beeculture.com and click on the CCD part. It is very comprehensive. I am not sure that there is a...
ok, I have just seen after your comunication the offer for the paper on Bee-l. I was asking those question cause there seems to be a an outbreak of died (ing)...
... The specific paper mentioned is here: http://www.dadant.com/documents/ChenandEvansarticlefromDec07ABJ.pdf The paper is explained in clearer terms here: ...
Hi All, Could anyone please tell me what affect OLEANDER flowers have on bees and honey , my neighbour has several trees that my bees love can we eat the honey...
Well, that's a new one on me, Jason. I have never known bees to work the Oleander. Is there a chance that the trees/bushes are maybe something else other than...
John, they are definetly oleander ,( i have an associate diploma of horticulture) unfortunatly here in s.a the stuff is every were , im in the country so the...
OK, Jason, it looks like you will have to be the one to answer the question then. Be sure to let us know.......... if you survive it! Cheers and good luck, ...
Trevor, i was led to believe honeybees were not easy to use in glass houses for pollination,if you could give me some of your wisdom on this matter it would be...
... From: "Buddha L" <trumphy69@...> Trevor, i was led to believe honeybees were not easy to use in glass houses for pollination,if you could give me...
Sorry for the tardiness in replying but things have been a bit hectic lately. You got a good reply from the Podargus man. Basically I would reinforce what he...
Thankyou very much Trevor and Podargus for your wisdom a friend of mine is going to let me practice on a small house of cucumbers we shall see how it turns out...
Thanks for getting the e into your cloake_board, Trevor. I haven't seen a Pender's catalogue for a while, but they were having a hard time for a long time...
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