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KM021 – Twenty One Today – Sugar Shaking, Pseudoscorpions and Bees at Weddings?

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Gary Fawcett
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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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German Wasps – How to Keep them out of your bee hives

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Gary Fawcett
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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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The Kiwimana Buzz Beekeeping Podcast #19 – Mouldy bee tongues?

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Gary Fawcett
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Join us for our nineteenth podcast. This week we are talking about Mouldy bee tongues, Natural Beekeeping and Buzzy Bee. Continue reading →

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The kiwimana Buzz Beekeeping Podcast #18 – Chat with Robert Johnson “Johnson HobbyHive”

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Gary Fawcett
Robert showing off one quart of honey...

This is the eighteenth podcast and this time we have a chat with Robert Johnson from Clarksville.  Thanks for listening guys. Continue reading →

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Auckland Bee Club Xmas BBQ 2012

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Gary Fawcett
Auckland Bee Club Xmas BBQ 2012

Over the weekend we attended the Auckland Bee Club Xmas BBQ, I am no longer on the committee, so we went along just as members. Here is what we discovered on the day…

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A Day of Inspections

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Gary Fawcett

It was a great day, maybe the best of days. So I headed to the organic farm that we have now have hives on. To inspect some of our bee hives… Continue reading →

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Can the Robinson Vaporiser control your Varroa Mites – Part 1

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Gary Fawcett


We starting selling a new beekeeping product a couple of weeks back, “The Robinson Vaporiser”, we have conducted the following test to see if it works as designed. Here is our observations and how you use the vaporiser. Continue reading →

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The Kiwimana Buzz Beekeeping Podcast #4 – NBA WS – President and CEO of NBA

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Gary Fawcett

Barry started the workshop by explaining that the government state that, “… “the varroa ‘problem’ is an industry problem” (and this term was used quite frequently throughout the day). Barry also stated that “…pollination not high on other agencies priorities…” Continue reading →

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NBA Workshop – 26 July 2012 – Hamilton

Posted on July 29, 2012 by Margaret Groot

The team at Kiwimana went along to the NBA (National Beekeepers’ Association of NZ) Workshop in Hamilton at the Claudelands Conference Centre. Continue reading →

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Neonicotinoids available now at your Garden Centre

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Gary Fawcett

Neonicotinoids are being sold in garden centres all across New Zealand, what can you do about it? Continue reading →

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