Slugs and Snails: Tips For Removing Them From Your Garden

Land Snail

In this article Sally gives some great natural tips on how to remove Slugs and Snails from your garden. Continue reading

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5 Ways To Make A Wildlife Friendly Garden

BumbleBees on Sunflower

Cormac from the United Kingdom discuss five ways to make your garden more Wildlife-Friendly. Some great tips to help you in planning your next garden.
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Combatting the Enemy – KM023

Image Credit: Protesting monsanto in San Francisco by Donna Cleveland

This is the Twenty third Episode of our Beekeeping Podcast, This week we are taking about Monsanto, Apistan and famous beekeepers. Continue reading

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Hedgehogs – Some Hair Raising Facts

Image Credit: Hedgehog by Daniel Wehner

We can often find hedgehogs hanging out in our back gardens. But that may not last forever Read on to find out more about why their habitat is disappearing.
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Apistan – What is it and Why we don’t use it

Image Credit: Female Varroa destructor on the head of a bee nymph by Gilles San Martin

Apistan – Is a synthetic pyrethroid used to remove varroa mites in bee colonies, But should you still be using it? Continue reading

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Sam Read Talks about her Pseudoscorpion Study – KM022

Sam Read
In this podcast we talk to Sam Read from Plant and food about her study of Chelifers (Pseudoscorpions)
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KM021 – Twenty One Today – Sugar Shaking, Pseudoscorpions and Bees at Weddings?

Photo by APM Alex

Margaret is back in the kiwimana HQ studio, This week we are taking about Sugar Shaking, Pseudoscorpions and Bees at Weddings? Continue reading

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Bee Frame Holder – What is it?

Frames Holders are Handy

What is a Bee Frame Holder and why are there so useful. Sick of bending over or tripping over frames, while inspecting your valuable bees, well you need a Bee Frame Holder. Continue reading

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German Wasps – How to Keep them out of your bee hives

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It’s the time of the year in the Waitakere Ranges that the common and German wasps are out and about looking for a free meal, if you don’t want that free meal to come from your beehive read this article.
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Beekeeping in Canada – We chat with Gabriel Petrut – KM020

Gabriel Petrut

This show we chat with Gabriel Petrut who lives in the Mississauga in Canada. We talk about beekeeping in Canada and some of the challenges with keeping bees. Continue reading

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