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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.

Posted on November 28, 2013 September 27, 2016
Written by
Gary Fawcett
Posted in
Beekeeping Supplies, How to Articles
Tagged
Beehive Box, box, Correct Wood, frames, hive, Hive Box, hives, Planing Wood
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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.

Posted on May 2, 2013 February 7, 2017
Written by
Gary Fawcett
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Tagged
"German Wasps", bee, capture, hive, hives, Robbing Guard, Use Traps, wasps
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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.

Posted on August 14, 2012 October 20, 2017
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Gary Fawcett
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bee hive, box, frames, hive, split, Splitting, spring split
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