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Education Resources 

The mystery of the disappearing queens

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Sue Watling 0 Comments Beginners blog, being queenless, frame donation, queenright

My bees arrived in April. By June, one colony was rebuilding itself after a swarm while the other had mysteriously

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Only half the split works and I don’t know why

November 14, 2020 Sue Watling 0 Comments Beginners blog, lessons, merge, queenless, queenright

By now I’d had my bees for 10 weeks. While other newbies seemed to be making new colonies and adding

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Inspecting after the swarm and the split

October 3, 2020October 24, 2020 Sue Watling 0 Comments Beginners blog, newspaper, queenless, queenright, split

My apiary was growing. I now had three hives and I was on target for ending the season with four

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Splitting a hive and the mystery of the pink queen

September 12, 2020October 3, 2020 Sue Watling 0 Comments Beginners blog, being queenless, Pagden method, queen cells, walk away split

I’d lost half the brown hive girls to a swarm, and needed to avoid the same thing happening to the

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What happened after the swarm

September 11, 2020October 10, 2020 Sue Watling 0 Comments Beginners blog, post-swarm, queen cells, split, Wally Shaw

The brown hive girls swarmed at 11.00 a.m. on a hot sunny day.  Looking back, they’d been warning me of

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the day the bees left

August 19, 2020September 1, 2020 Sue Watling 1 Comment Beginners blog, swarm

On the previous inspection I was excited to see how fast the colonies had developed. It was the fifth week

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lessons learned in the first month of beekeeping

July 27, 2020July 27, 2020 Sue Watling 0 Comments Beginners blog, first month, lessons

When it comes to preparing for an inspection, I still haven’t mastered the art of getting suited and booted (good

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Keeping it in the family

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Sue Watling 0 Comments Beginners blog, family, stings

After the second solo inspection, I felt more confident.  The hives were looking well with capped brood and stores. I wasn’t

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On gaining confidence

June 17, 2020June 19, 2020 Sue Watling 0 Comments bee-bread, Beginners blog, inspection, learning curve, myth

The bees arrived three weeks ago but I don’t feel like a beekeeper. When does the confidence kick in? After

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First solo inspection

June 15, 2020 Sue Watling 1 Comment Beginners blog, mistakes, solo inspection

It still takes ages to get booted and suited. There must be an easy way to wear double nitrile gloves

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