Screened bottom board, We made our first one
I finished our new Screened bottom board today, I added a Varroa Mite inspection mat that is just a piece of plastic. Part of the same sheet of plastic that is also the roof of our NUC box. The mat can...
View ArticleMokoroa Inspection
Visited the Mokoroa NUC today, the Queenless NUC experiment. Well no surprise but no new brood, as I also suspect no queen as well. No Queen cells have been created, and the base of the NUC has around...
View ArticleGoldie Inspection Part 2
Well after seeing the Queen Cells in Honey1, I wanted to check Goldie. I didn’t finish the inspection last week because the Bees stop play by stinging me four times. After listening to an Episode of...
View ArticleNew Frame Jig
saw the plans for this on http://www.myoldtools.com/Bees/framejig/framejig.htmand deciding to make it. Made up 10 ¾ frames the other day much quicker than the old method, I would recommend anyone to...
View ArticleOur First Extraction
Yesterday we inspected the Goldie hive, just checked the supers. We were keen to see how the girls got on with capping some more frames of honey. (Double click on the images to enlarge) We managed to...
View ArticleGoldie Inspection…More Supers???
Time to inspect Goldie today, it was a hot day in the hills today with no rain so decided to inspect while I could. It was windy but very calm in the Bee Garden area. The hive now has two full broods...
View ArticleVarroa Count from Goldie
We checked the bottom board and we discovered seven Varroa mites in Goldie, which is a very low count for this time of year but we must keep an eye on these little mites. We also need to work out a way...
View ArticleGoldie Inspection
Hi Everyone, sorry the gap between blog entries. Today I did a full inspection of Goldie and the hive is going well, it has five supers on top of two brood boxes. It also had a full size super on top...
View ArticleHoney 1 – Inspecting the merged hive
I did a full inspection of the new merged hive today and all looked great, did spot a varroa mite on the back of one of the workers. So will have to treat for them when the supers are all off. As...
View ArticleNever hold a frame full of bees away from the hive
Last Updated Sunday, August 4, 2013What Happened A couple of weeks back we had an incident with the Remuera 1 hive. We were inspecting frames and the queen must have fallen from the it. When we were...
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