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Swarm removal, trap boxes available. Supplying working bee hives for your back yard.
07/09/2024
Spring inspections, such as it is, weeks behind last years start. Plenty of pollen coming in, raining out the frames while turning doing brood inspections. Several with chalkbrood and sackbrood, several drone layers coming out of winter. On the whole brood nests expanding nice, no sign of any swarm cells, several weeks ago hardly a drone cell to be seen, plenty of capped drone cells showing now.
17/03/2024
What a season it’s been , great if you’re a honey producer, but I’m not. Good honey season has been kind though in building up hive numbers. Few hiccups along the way with some melt downs in the heat, ants driving some out but that’s primary production.
Wonder what next season will bring ? I know one thing, I’ve had enough of building wooden bee boxes . Once this lots done that’s it…
25/01/2024
Local Honey.
Mixed summer flowering gum. $10 1kg tub.
Pure unfiltered, unheated honey straight from the hive. Only small amount available.
To all those with trap hives, keep eye out for activity. Nothing like a few cool days like we’ve just had this time of year to create a feeling of congestion and create swarming impulse.
The suns peeking through this morning and I’ve got these scouts out looking at several trap boxes I have set at home.
23/09/2023
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Swarm season has officially begun.
have put a kill order out on swarms because of an irrational fear that it will be swarms that spread the mite. The mite as we know has already been spread by migratory beekeepers and is considered endemic in nsw. I see no reason why someone need to kill swarms.
Many Beekeepers around Australia often re home swarms with kindness and love providing a service to local communities who may be impacted by the arrival of a swarm.
Swarming is considered very fortunate in most cultures. If you see a swarm make sure you contact a local beekeeper and they will house and relocate the colony.
Swarming is the natural ways bees re produce and evolve to defeat pests and is why we have genetic resistant bees overseas.
Bees live in a collective consciousness where in each bee feels the thoughts and actions of all other bees within the colony. Thus every bee in the hive knows the status of the hive’s health, production, and coherence.
Before bees swarm they gorge on honey. Bees are vulnerable and generally calm when they swarm.
Swarming involves the old queen and some of her sisters leaving their established hive to scout out a new location to create another hive.
A virgin queen is left behind and after she mates she will quickly rebuild the population of bees.
Make sure you contact a local beekeeperi and they will house and relocate the colony.
To find a local beekeeper
Try swarmpatrol.com
10/09/2023
Neighbours chimney is abuzz with bee activity.
Had a call for swarm that had moved into wine barrel, bees have been in there before. They don’t usually just up and move into a box if you put one close by….. one in a million, these bees seem to like my box better than the barrel, they appear to 🐝 on the move :-)
16/08/2023
Been doing rounds re baiting some trap hives, havnt seen anything like this yet. Someone with trap has just sent this in. Keep eye out, let me know if you see this and I’ll have to deal with the ants.
13/08/2023
Yesterdays cutout “text book “ by comparison to todays, hope I never come across one of these again. Polystyrene house foundation pods, just chew through to the next cell to expand colony, it was a big colony at that, no sign of swarm cells in this one but plenty of drones.
12/08/2023
1st cutout for the season, occupying cavity between black w**d mat and ground around roots, should fill the box fairly well when they find there way inside.
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