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News from Ireland – We have just opened our B and B

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Vanessa Drew
breakfast

A new blog post from Vanessa in Ireland, The bees are coming out of winter, how did they do over the colder months? Vanessa and her partner have also just opened a Bed and Breakfast.
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Its Autumn in New Zealand – The Time to Treat is here

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Gary Fawcett
Leaves

The honey flow has slowed down in most parts of New Zealand and hopefully you have taken all your honey supers off, and got your honey in jars for the winter months. The Time to Treat is here now, what are your plans???
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Irish Springtime is getting closer !

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Vanessa Drew
Crocuses

Guest post from Ireland by Vanessa, Spring is just around the corner and our Northern Hemisphere beekeepers are looking forward to the Irish Springtime. Continue reading →

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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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Bethells 1 – Hive Inspection

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Gary Fawcett

Started 13:23 – Weather windy but sunny Well Bethells 1 is due for an inspection, the sun and the bees were out and about. So we took the chance to do an inspection. The tin roof had been propolised down; … 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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