How To Clean Beeswax – Here is the steps we use to Clean beeswax. The beeswax can then be used in candles or cosmetic products.
Category: How to Articles
Articles how about how to do things in Beekeeping
Wasps in your beehive – A Robbing Screen may help
Wasps in your beehive – A Robbing Screen may help, we discuss using our Robbing Screen to deter Wasps and Honey Bees robbing your Bees.
How to make a Beehive Box – A Step by Step Guide
How to make a Beehive Box – An article about how we make Macrocarpa hive boxes at kiwimana. With tips on how to assemble your Beehive boxes.
How to Paint a Beehive Box
Every wanted a way to Paint a lot of Beehive Boxes quickly, here is the method we use to paint our boxes.
How To Make Seed Bombs
Seed bombs can simplify the task of filling any empty space with flowers. This post tells you how to make seed bombs and more.
How to use the Kiwi Oxalic Acid Vaporizer with Video
We have had great success with using the vaporizer to control varroa mites in our bee colonies, in this article we discuss the method involved in treating your bee hives successfully.
German Wasps – How to Keep them out of your bee hives
It’s the time of the year in the Waitakere Ranges that the common and German wasps/Yellow Jackets are out and about looking for a free meal, if you don’t want that free meal to come from your beehive read this article.
How to Build Beehive Frames
Beehive Frames – How to build Beehive Frames, here is how we manually build Beehive frames at kiwimana.
Powdered Sugar Shake – Counting Varroa Mites using icing sugar
Powdered sugar shake – How to do a Powdered sugar shake to check the count of varroa mites living in your bee colony. A Step by step guide with thresholds.
How to Split a Beehive
This article explains how we do hive splitting with great success. This disrupts the varroa mites and also increases your colonies.