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Went along to the Auckland bee club

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Gary Fawcett

Wow what a great day in Auckland today and wow what a great turn out of new and existing members at the bee club. I gave a presentation about how to merge two hives together using the newspaper method. Have … Continue reading →

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Mokoroa 1 Merge

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Gary Fawcett

Checked the Mokoroa 1 cache that we re-queened with a queen from Dal’s Pollination three weeks ago. The hive is going from strength to strength after we removed the wax moths. The hive has new brood and spotted a lot … Continue reading →

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Honey 1 – Inspecting the merged hive

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Gary Fawcett

I did a full inspection of the new merged hive today and all looked great, did spot a varroa mite on the back of one of the workers.  So will have to treat for them when the supers are all … Continue reading →

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Merging Honey 1+2=3??

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Gary Fawcett

After the last inspection of Honey 2 and discovering that the hive didn’t have a functioning Queen, we decided that the best approach was to merge the hive with Honey 1.  Thus making Honey 3 (only kidding). We thought this … Continue reading →

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