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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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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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Honey 2 Inspection

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Gary Fawcett

Inspected the hive today, we had noticed that the landing board has been very quiet lately, so we suspected all was not well inside the hive. The have had two full boxes, and the Bees haven’t done anything with the … Continue reading →

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