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Bee Hive Inspections
Mokoroa 1 Did a full inspection of the hive today, still a few ¾ frames in the hive from when I was feeding them the stores from last year. Loads of brood today and spotted the Queen walking around, the … Continue reading
Mokoroa 1 Merge
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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Mokoroa 1 Checking on the Queen
Quick Check after a day’s work to see how things are going in Mokoroa 1, well some good and bad news… The Queen is laying well and we saw some new brood and some new eggs, also spotted the queen … Continue reading
Queen Rearing Experiment – update
This morning was slightly overcast – maybe some rain coming ? … there was also a breeze so wasn’t sure if the weather would hold-off for checking up on the queen rearing experiment, went in to start the inspection about 11.30am. … Continue reading
Giving Queen Rearing a Go!!! Part 2
We got some new supplies yesterday and today we set up some new NUCs. We checked out the frame that we put into Honey 1 the other day. The bees had expanded the comb and the Queen (which we saw … Continue reading
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Tagged miller method, NUC, nuc box, Pseudoscorpion, queen, queen cell
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Goldie gets some Apistan strips treatment
Did the inspection of Goldie today, the weather was patchy today. So couldn’t get started until after two pm. Took a while to light the smoker as most of the wood is also damp. We needed to get the Apistan … Continue reading
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Tagged "inspect", "strips", American Foul Brood, apistan, black brood, comb, crystals, hive, new zealand, paradichlorobenzene, patchy brood, pdb, queen, smoker, sparse, wax moth
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Goldie Inspection
Hi Everyone, sorry the gap between blog entries. Today I did a full inspection of Goldie and the hive is going well, it has five supers on top of two brood boxes. It also had a full size super on … Continue reading
Wild Hive
Got a call today from a local company, they had removed a tree and discovered a Bee Hive inside it. They wanted to pour petrol on it and kill them; hopefully we can find the Queen and remove the colony … Continue reading
Honey 1
M – Well its been very stressful but yet the bees remained calm ! G – Yes it was stressful indeed, but we removed the remaining bits of New Zealand Christmas tree from the hive and added some new frames. … Continue reading
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