How To Move A Beehive – Here are my thoughts about moving beehives. Some tips and tricks for moving them safety.
Can the Robinson Vaporiser control your Varroa Mites – Part 1
We starting selling a new beekeeping product a couple of weeks back, “The Robinson Vaporiser”, we have conducted the following test to see if it works as designed. Here is our observations and how you use the vaporiser.
Inspection of Honey 1 – The Queens Great Escape
Checked the weather forecast and it looked good until tomorrow, it has been predicated to rain tomorrow. Started the inspection at 2:30 PM. Started the inspection by taking off the roof, no sign of comb or Bees in the new “Kiwimana bee hive roof”. Looks like the bees don’t see the roof as an extension[…]Read More
Storm in Auckland and the new Kiwimana Hive Roof
Followers of our FaceBook page would have seen the terrible weather we had in Auckland over the weekend which inspired us to continue further work on our “Kiwimana Hive Roof” prototype. I spent time finishing off our prototype after visiting our local wood yard (also buying some more wood for other “ideas” and projects). The[…]Read More
Auckland Bee Club Meetup – Swarming Season
We went along to the Auckland Bee Club to hear about Queens and the start of the swarming season in Auckland.
Wrapping up your bees with a moisture quilt?
Winter is just around the corner, so it’s time to get the bees ready for winter. Your bees should have been treated now and have low mite counts. Now it is time to think about how to reduce moisture in your hives over the winter months.
Honey 1 – Sugar Shake and removed Drone Brood
Hi, I was discussing Sugar Shaking our Bees yesterday with Rocky at the Auckland Bee Club and invited him up to be part of our first attempt at it. It went pretty well, and we made a video on YouTube about it. Click HERE to view the Video. Hopefully the video shows you how we[…]Read More
Made some Screen Bottom Boards
Finished building some screen bottom boards today. Screen bottom boards have a few advantages. Help reduce the varroa mites due to natural fall (The mites fall through the screen) Provides a way for you to count mites Provides increased ventilation for the bees Reduces moisture in the hive over winter I would recommend looking into[…]Read More
2013 Spring is here – Part 2
Margaret continues her series of blog posts about what we doing to get ready for the bee season.
Went along to the Auckland bee club
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 a look at this blog post for more details about this Mokoroa 1 Merge Thanks[…]Read More
Auckland Bee Club Meeting
Went along to the Auckland Bee Club today, wow… it seems every meeting has more people. Which is a good thing indeed, hopefully the new people will take up Bee Keeping and join us to help save the Bees. Coincidently, our neighbours from just up the road from our home, were at the meeting and[…]Read More