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What's a Buzz?

Bee Ware

Start Beekeeping with us!

Bees are now producing around 250-500 eggs a day as the queen bee goes into autumn laying mode. If your bees have quality sources of nectar & pollen at this point they can be at honey production levels for one LAST harvest before winter off season sets in.

Ensure you have left some honey for the bees so they have food to sustain them through the colder nights and days that lie ahead.

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Upcoming Crops

~ Saligna Grandis ~

Saligna Grandis is flowering now in areas around old Transvaal like Ermelo and Magaliesberg area. There are pretty much very small nectar flows over the next 2 months unless you are pollinating tunnel grown vegetables and berries... like blueberries.

~ Sunflower ~

If you are in the North West province or Limpopo province, the sunflower crops finish flowering over the next few days

Remember, there are different means of using bees and sunflowers together. Sunflower blossoms at different times in different provinces so ask a local farmer while planning this out.

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~ What's a Buzz? --------------> Important Company news

We have some new staff at the shop. Warrick, the founder and owner of Bee WARE for 14 years, would love to introduce Vic and Shirley to our fantastic bee loving community! Read about Warrick's story on Facebook...

Martin has left Bee WARE and he told us that he is going to America to work as a beekeeper on a contract in Dakota for a company with 10,000 hives! WOW Right?! What an opportunity!

Our other news is that we have new staff at the Centurion Bee Ware Shop. Please note: Due to the Data Protection Act it is our legal obligation to inform you that your contact details may be used to contact you by third parties other than Bee WARE for bee related products. Be assured that only Bee WARE invoices with company details of Hollow Space Creations cc are from Warrick and his new team.

P.S. We also feel it is important to inform all of our loyal, bee loving customers that our contact details by phone line are 012 771 4288 and 012 757 5538 to speak with Vic and Shirley or contact Shirley on 083 308 0042 at the Bee WARE Centurion Shop.

The old cell number of 081 426 43... is no longer valid.

Contact details for Bee WARE

Tel number: 012 771 4288 | 083 308 0042 Online: http://www.beeware.co.za/shop2

Honey flow pretty much shuts down in the southern African countries for the next 3 months

P.S. Bees are going to need some care during the winter if they don't have a honey store. Feeding sugar water on a regular basis in small amounts with regular breaks helps to sustain their colony and food demands.

The simple way to make sugar water is to take 1 cup of water and then use the same cup while using 2 full cups of sugar and mix them. Ideally you use hot water in order to make the sugar soluble in the water. This is a 2:1 ration of water and sugar. It's ideal for sustaining wintering swarms.

Tip:

Another formula is using 1 cup water to 1 cup sugar but this is to increase the swarm laying capacity which is not what we want to do at this time. Start this formula of feeding in August...

Do you plan for Spring now?

With honeybees coming to autumn now they begin to wind down and become somewhat less active do to the low availability of forage. we like to leave our bees with honey in the super and in the brood, if there is.

We've got a number of ideas for you:

Prepare your spring season site list
Research and contact grower's associations for access to farmland
Use your bee by-products to make products to sell or reuse in the hive
Make candles with beeswax
Make balms, creams and lotions with beeswax
Make propolis tinctures with high percentage alcohol
Plan your spring catching programme
Budget for new equipment, tools
Find future customers, markets to sell your honey in spring
Make labels, flyers or other marketing material for your goods
Prepare a fire break clearing schedule where bees are on farmland / veld areas
Prepare feeding schedule for the heavy winter weeks with sugar water

Check on Bee WARE's online shop today for deals

Discover the Bee-Friendly flowers, crops and plants that beekeepers should focus on this month in March for next flows:

Recommendations: Even if you aren't able to take full advantage of these blossoming trees and plants now, plant some of them this year so they can be ready next year or a few years from now.

Plant now for the future and help give bees food for life.

Updates:

We have new stock of beehives, bee smokers & Extractors!

Good NEWS! - We have launched an updated website for ordering online! Visit www.beeware.co.za/shop2

What else can you do?

Come on a bee course to start beekeeping now!
Set up pollination contracts for crops and fruit growers.
Generally, crops and fruit orchards require varying ratios of hives to hectare > a rough average is at least 3 hives per hectare

Our next Easy Buzzing Beekeeping Course is on June 3 in Midrand. Our Practical Intermediate Bee Course runs on June 10 in Midrand.

This course will be facilitated by Bee WARE with practical hive session after lunch.

For anyone who is about to start beekeeping here's some things to consider:

It's really awesome working with bees
It's scary working with bees
But it's honestly amazing!
Care for them and they provide honey, wax and other products of the hive
A starter kit is R3600 all-in! Big discount!
A bee course is R850
You kuier lekker met die Bye!

So treat your hubby, loved one or friend with a beekeeping gift today!

Got a farm and growing crops? Bees can pollinate your crops and usually contribute to more than 50% of the pollination of most crops over and above that of butterflies and flies.

We will be posting to FaceBook the actual pollination effects bees will have on crops in South Africa and elsewhere over the next week. Be sure to visit our FaceBook page for that info.

Here's a challenge: Which crop enjoys 300% increase in yields when 2x hives per hectare are utilised when flowering takes place?

Can you spot her? The queen bee [above] is the only fertile female in the Scutellata colony and therefore the only bee that can properly lay eggs of either male or female workers.

Online Bee Store!

The Centurion Shop is open for business Monday- Friday 9:00-16:00 and on Sat 09:00 - 12:00!

Amazing beautiful hand poured pure beeswax candles available online & in-store in Centurion!

The Christmas Tree Candle is a stunning gift for nature lovers, candle burners, meditators and churches! Hand rolled beeswax candles now!

More Pure Beeswax candles!

Pure Beeswax Candles ›

First Steps

Keep reading articles, bee books

Over the course of the next 6 weeks we will be sending you tips, articles and news about beekeeping that will help you to better understand the benefits of bees for all of us!

We will be sending you tips, articles and news about beekeeping that will help you to better understand the benefits of bees for all of us!

Our recommended first steps are that you get hold of the blue book, Beekeeping in South Africa which is available on our website by mail order or if you collect in Centurion.

Southern Hemisphere:

Work on getting The Bees set up for winter and your winter jobs too!

Focus on leaving honey in the brood chamber for the bees. Some leave honey in the super as well. If you have a late source of food it makes more sense.

Make sure your hives are not left in valleys or gulleys where frost will make it extremely risky to health and survival of the colony.

Northern Hemisphere:

The bees will START venturing out now! With temps above 13 degrees Celsius bees flight muscles can now move and will seize the opportunity to take the sky.

With spring here, be sure to get your supers ready to place on hives as they build strong. Feed to grow colony capacity using 1:1 feeding formula.

Sugar water can be used to feed the bees and supplement their diet over the cold winter days and nights. However, use only white sugar as brown tends to ferment quicker and give the bees gastro. They can die from this.

Feed the bees with sugar water. This will begin the process of the queen bee laying extra eggs in lieu of increased food. By encouraging the queen bee to start laying early before the spring flowers come into bloom the colony benefits from the flush blossoming in strength from the start instead of using the spring blossom to build their numbers.

Ask Questions & Visit our site to get info on bees, equipment and like us on Facebook!

If you are all for bees then bees are all for it!
http://www.beeware.co.za

Bee Book

more info »

Love bees but cannot make the bee course to get started? Get our Bee Book called Beekeeping in South Africa for R360!

Watch our bee videos on keeping bees, harvesting honey and bee info

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3- Frame extractors

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Bee Smokers

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Hive tools
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