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Getting Started in Beekeeping -

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This website uses cookies to improve functionality. By using this site, you accept the use of cookies on your device. About cookies. Advice for New Beekeepers. Have you always wanted to become a beekeeper but didn't know where to start? There are different strains of the honey bee,. The Queen; mother of all the bees and lays all the eggs in the colony, both male and female. In the summer; several hundred drones whose function is to mate with new queens. Try some of the sites on the useful links. Other es...

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Wirral Beekeepers - Becoming a beekeeper

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Education on the Wirral. 56 YEARS OF BEEKEEPING ON THE WIRRAL. How do I start beekeeping? Many people like the idea of keeping bees but have limited knowledge or have never handled them. Before going out and buying a hive and a colony of bees I suggest you take into consideration the below suggestions. Locate your local Beekeepers' Association, this is easily done with the help of www.bbka.org.uk - the British Beekeepers Association. Contact the group and arrange a chat. If you are considering setting up...

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Polystyrene Bee Hives | Poly Hives

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UK Local Honey Suppliers. Pests & Diseases of Honey Bees. American Foulbrood or AFB. Colony Collapse Disorder – CCD. Swarms & Swarming. Polystyrene Bee Hives Poly Hives. Poly Hives in UK Beekeeping. And Beehive Supplies, some already do 14×12 too. Poly hives have probably been around for over 20 years now, however they have typically been used further north in Scandinavia and Canada, their colder climate had forced them to try out new techniques to help them overwinter their honeybees. Some are compatibl...

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Notes from a Small Apiary: Marcus Terentius Varro - De re rustica.

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Notes from a Small Apiary. Marcus Terentius Varro - De re rustica. According to CMC Green. Varro " began the project, he says, at the request of his young wife who wanted to know how to manage her new estate. The 'treatise' isn't written as a text book, it's written as a series of stories and conversations. If nothing else, I think it's interesting. This translation is taken directly from this site. Chapter 16.3 - 16.38; pp 501- 521. The best hives are those made of [cork oak] bark, and the worst those m...

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Notes from a Small Apiary: January 2015

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Notes from a Small Apiary. Pears in a rich caramel-honey sauce. Fresh pears with a rich caramel-honey sauce - a lovely dessert recipe, very quick and easy to make at any time of the year. One pear per person - use firm, ripe, pears. Comice are good. 1 tbsp. honey. Sprinkle of ground cinnamon. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How not to keep bees. Search 'Notes from a Small Apiary'. About this blog, and disclaimer. If you try to imitate something I've done, and it all goes pear-shaped it isn't my fault! Scienc...

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Notes from a Small Apiary: Queen cells, swarming and beginner beekeeper training

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Notes from a Small Apiary. Queen cells, swarming and beginner beekeeper training. It's late September, which is a strange time of year to think about queen cells and swarming, but, having recently helped a new-to-the-BKA-this-year beekeeper deal with the repercussions of. Misunderstood advice, now seems as good a time as any. It's important for all beekeepers. To know, and to fully understand, why it is not a good idea. It seems that there was a chain of misconceptions and assumptions that, when one or m...

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Notes from a Small Apiary: January 2016

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Notes from a Small Apiary. Messing with hard and fast beginners rules. When we learn something new were often told there is only ever one way to do a certain thing, and were often expected to perfect that method before trying a different way of achieving the same result. Beekeeping is like this, to some extent, in that many instructors tell new beekeepers that there is one way, and only one way, of keeping bees - their way - and they can get really annoyed if their trainees dont do as theyre told. BIBBA ...

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Notes from a Small Apiary: Orientation flights.

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Notes from a Small Apiary. It's actually amazing to watch a colony orientate en masse, something that will only happen when a colony finds itself somewhere new - when a beekeeper moves a hive, or perhaps when a swarm relocates from a tree to a permanent nesting site, or maybe even when a tree containing a nest falls down and the colony suddenly finds itself at ground level. The circular loops of 8 pattern continued to grow sideways, and move upwards, until some of the bees were flying level with the tree...

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Notes from a Small Apiary: February 2015

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Notes from a Small Apiary. Both European Foulbrood and American Foulbrood are notifiable diseases here in UK. This means that cases MUST be reported to the Beekeeping Inspectorate, who will then inspect your bees and, if there is a positive diagnosis, will tell you what you should do next. The Inspectors will then inspect all known colonies within the nearby area, and support those other beekeepers whose colonies are also infected. The aim is to restrict the spread of the disease. How not to keep bees.