Well it was time for inspection of both our hives, Margaret needed to add a new brood box to Honey 1. We did this I thought we would be doing a full inspection, but Margaret decided not to today as there was a lot of Bees in the hive. She may post an entry for[…]Read More
…where did they go ?
…it appears our swarm has swarmed ! yep they left, and not a one stayed ! we aren’t sure what happened and we put it down to three possibilities, maybe not enough food, maybe the queen wasn’t in the hive, maybe the queen died. We’ll have to put this one down to experience…roll-on the next[…]Read More
Honey 1 Update
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. M got a sting on the hand, so we have decided to buy a full[…]Read More
GOLDIE DAY ONE
Well day one of our Bee Keeping adventure, we purchased a NUC last night from our new friend Rosemary. A NUC or nucleus is a small hive with a Queen and a number of drones and worker bees. We placed this in the back of the ute and headed to the hills, when we got[…]Read More
Goldie Inspection and First Sting.
Decided to not use my huge gloves today, to see what it would be like. Got stung as the Bee’s seem very aggressive today for some reason. Maybe it was the windy weather, it was bright and sunny but quite windy. But calm down by the hives. Checked the new Brood Box and it was[…]Read More
Goldie Second Inspection
Hi All, Well with the weather being amazing in the hills today, we thought would inspect Goldie to see how she was going. Its been a couple of weeks, since we have checked out the Goldie Girls. Well, findings were that that there was a lot of condensation under the lid of the hive so we[…]Read More
First Swarm and Start of Honey 1
Well we got a text message today from my brother about someone at his work that had a swarm in their garden. Well we have never picked up a swarm, but after reading the pages from “Bee Keepers for Dummies”, we ventured out even thou Gary wasn’t feeling the best today. We found the swarm[…]Read More
The KiwiMana Bee keeping Blog – Welcome
Here is our Blog about our adventures in Bee Keeping, have a look and see what we are up too….feel free to comment or ask questions. We are still learning so welcome the feedback. Thanks for reading…Gary and Margaret
Goldie Inspection and new Brood Box
After yesterday BeeKeeper club meeting, I asked a couple of people how to stop condensation in the hive. Goldie seems to have a big problem with water build up in the roof, most people agreed that cutting a hole in the Bee Matt which is actually the layer below the tin roof. May help this[…]Read More
Weather Not good in Waitakeres
Well we were unable to open the hives yesterday, as it was raining most of the day. Bee’s are still bearding around Honey 1, even in the rain. They have formed little lines of Bee’s, so we will leave them to it. We have another NUC arriving soon, so we need to buy some new[…]Read More
Bee’s all out of NUC
Good news, all the left over bees found they way out of the old box into the new hive. The Bees have busy today, which is great to see..