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Wrapping up your bees with a moisture quilt?

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Gary Fawcett

Winter is just around the corner, so it’s time to get the bees ready for winter. Your bees should have been treated now and have low mite counts. Now it is time to think about how to reduce moisture in your hives over the winter months. Continue reading →

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Never hold a frame full of bees away from the hive

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Gary Fawcett

What Happened A couple of weeks back we had an incident with the Remuera 1 hive. We were inspecting frames and the queen must have fallen from the it. When we were cleaning up after the inspection, we noticed a … Continue reading →

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Picking up the Hawthorn swarm – Part 3 “Third time is the Charm”

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Gary Fawcett

I headed out to work on the Remuera swarm again, hopefully third time lucky. I spoke to Peter from the Franklin bee-club who suggested we take some old comb to attract them. Which I had done last time, but this … Continue reading →

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Removing the Apistan Strips

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Gary Fawcett

Well its week seven and we planned to removed the Apistan strips this week, the plan was if this weekend was bad weather (which to be honest in this Auckland Winter that’s most weekends), we would remove them next weekend. … Continue reading →

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