Pushing up daisies from The Beehive Jive Beekeeping Podcast

The Beehive Jive Beekeeping Podcast

Tracey & Paul

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Pushing up daisies

1 hour 24 minutes Posted Aug 14, 2017 at 3:04 am.

– 02:00: What’s up with Paul’s bees

– 00:00: Using Bee-Quick to clear supers – http://www.bee-quick.com/

– 07:00: Getting nucs ready for winter

– 12:00: BBKA education program – https://www.bbka.org.uk/learn/

– 16:00: What’s happening in Tracey’s honey mines

– 21:00: Treatments

– 25:00: The Ivy flow is coming

– 31:00: Queen selection and grafting

– 40:00: Mating nucs learnings

– 43:00: Does rearing queens change your approach to colony management

– 49:00: Culling queens & queen selection

– 51:00: Disappearing queens

– 52:00: Cell building plans for next year.

– 1:16:00: Queen rearing isn’t a linear process.

– 1:24:00: Rating our beekeeping year.

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In this episode of the Beehive Jive Tracey and Paul wrap up our queen rearing year by discussing our learnings acquired trying to establish a queen rearing program in our apiaries.

We also talk about what is happening in our apiaries and beekeepers’ educational programs.

What did we learn about queen rearing this year.

Links:

Visit our occasional beekeeping blog – http://www.thebeehivejive.com

Excellent queen rearing course – http://www.tigerhallbees.co.uk/

Millar method – http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/millermethod.html

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