Category Archives: Beekeeping

News about our beehives, inspections and what we have found.

Tips on Public Relations for Backyard Beekeepers

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It's important [...]

21
Nov
Robbing Screen – How to Stop Wasps and Bees Robbing Your Bee Hives

A Robbing Screen is a placed in the front of the honey beehive entrance. [...]

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11
Feb
Sam Read Talks about her Pseudoscorpion Study – KM022

In this podcast we talk to Sam Read from Plant and food about her study [...]

23
May
Varroa Treatments – Our Autumn Treatments

Varroa Treatments this Autum
Varroa Treatments - [...]

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21
Apr
Honey Extraction Process
The Honey Extraction Process – Our First Extraction

The Honey Extraction Process, we discuss the first time we extracted honey way back in [...]

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30
Jan
How to Become an Insecticide Labelling Ninja

It’s been my experience the consumer buying public don’t realise that Insecticides bought at the [...]

27
Sep
First Swarm and Start of Honey 1
October 22, 2009

Well we got a text message today from my brother about someone at his work [...]

Goldie Day One – Our Very First Beehive
October 18, 2009

Well day one of our Beekeeping adventure, we purchased a NUC last night from our [...]

2013 Spring is here – Part 2

Margaret Checks Remuera 1
Margaret continues her series [...]

06
Sep
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 [...]

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02
May