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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…
Posted in Bee Club Meetings
Tagged "kids", "nz", "photos", "whenuapai", auckland, Auckland Bee Club, bbq, bee, Bees, buddies, buddy, buzzy, buzzybee, Frank Schuurman, Gregg Parr, guys, Henderson, hive, hobsonville, kiwimana, Margaret, ok, tornado, wairere
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Can the Robinson Vaporiser control your Varroa Mites – Part 1
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
Posted in Beekeeping Supplies, Kiwimana News, Swarms
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Save the Bees – Stop the Fee – UPDATE 2
Phone CallWe got a phone call from Auckland Council’s rep Nigel King – Customer Services Manager this morning (this was in no doubt as a result of an email sent by Margaret first thing, asking why we haven’t received any … Continue reading
Posted in Bee Industry News
Tagged "hearings", Auckland Council, bee, Bees, kiwimana, long term plan, ltp, Margaret, Nigel King, penalties, swarm
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Inspecting two hives – Swanson and Glen Eden 2
The weather was good and the temperature was 22 degrees today, so I decided to inspect a couple of our hives. Days in which inspections can be done are becoming fewer and fewer, as New Zealand heads into winter. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Our Beehives
Tagged "feed", "Glen Eden", "Swanson", brood, bustling, hive, hives, honey, lava, Margaret, merge, new zealand
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Tutin in Toxic Honey – Searching for Tutu while Treasure Hunting
We decided to go away for Auckland anniversary weekend. So while I was out and out in the Coromandel bush pursuing another one of my hobbies (Locating treasure with a GPS device or Geocaching). Continue reading
Posted in Bee Industry News, Kiwimana News
Tagged "Auckland anniversary Weekend", "australis", "caterpillar", "Coromandel", "feeding", "geocaching", "gps", "honeydew", "hoppers", "invertebrates", "latin", "nz", "passion", "peninsular", "photo", "scolypopa", "toxic", "tutu", "vine", "waiomu", fluffy bums, hive, hives, honey, Margaret, nectar, new zealand, tutin, Vine hoppers
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Kiwimana hosts UK Visitor – Meeting Caroline
Tonight we had a great time with some fellow beekeepers, myself and some local beekeepers met up with Caroline who is visiting from England. Caroline got in touch via our blog a few months back, it was great to finally … Continue reading
Posted in Kiwimana News
Tagged "bedfordshire", "caroline", "england", "St Matthews", auckland, beekeepers, Beekeeping, Bees, blog, Gary, Margaret, new zealand
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Picking up the Hawthorn swarm – Part 3 “Third time is the Charm”
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
Posted in Our Beehives, Swarms
Tagged "firewood", "Franklin bee club", "Kiwimana HQ", "remuera", auckland, bee, Bees, blog, cluster, hedge, hive, honey, Margaret, Peter, swarm
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Treating our new Hives with Apilife
In between collecting swarms we checked on our new hives today and treated them with “Apilife Var” the organic mite treatment, the mites counts have been low but we have been told that treating a hive with low brood is … Continue reading
Picking up the Hawthorn swarm – Part 2
Second visit to this Remuera hive, we texted the house owner “Nick” this morning and he advised us that the bees had returned to the hedge despite our efforts last night. The bees are clustered in a middle of hedge … Continue reading
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