Subject: Friend, feeding bees & Nectar flow Events

 

Bee Course dates & Feeding bees

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Course dates coming up: 23rd FEB, MAR 16th (pending), April 20th & May 25th!
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It will be just about time to let your bees build stores for winter - unless you have bees on strong crops of sunflower, eucalyptus or lemon flowering at present.

Soon, the only sources of nectar will be derived from Cosmos, Aloes and Bottlebrush. In general, bees are likely to be taking things easy and not likely to be producing much brood. Of course, if they are located within or near a strong nectar flow then the queen will lay profusely to try to take advantage of the situation.

A hint for anyone looking to take advantage of any nectar flow is to ensure that the bees have been prepared for the nectar flow to create excess and not to use it to build brood on. This is especially the case if you have more or less fixed or limited sites and similarly nectar flow events.

Be sure to encourage the queen to lay brood at least 3 weeks before an expected nectar flow event. To do so, start feeding bags or any other type of feeding method as early as 4 weeks ahead and supply three bags (roughly 750ml) of sugar water a week leading up to the nectar flow event.

This persuades the queen to lay more brood (increase brood production) so that by the time the worker's emerge and develop they can also be involved with the nectar flow event at the SAME time as the event takes place.   

  

If you are a brand new beekeeper then get hold of a Blue book, or Practical Beekeeping ebook and come on a beginner beekeeping course.           
                                
Easy Buzzing bee course 23rd February
Easy Buzzing Bee course for beginners is running again likely to be the 23rd February near Lanseria airport!

Visit the Bee course section on our website for further details. 

PEAK month for beekeeping is Sept & Spring Kick off! January is great for Sunflowers and other secondary blooms.

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Beginner beekeeping course will be running again 23rd February!

It's a full day of beginner beekeeping training with at least 90 minutes of REAL Bee work as you open a working bee hive and inspect for pests, honey and the queen bee!

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  We offer start up kits for beginner beekeepers.

Purchase any of the items below separately or as a starter kit:

Bee hives
Bee suits - detachable veil
Hive tool
Bee smoker
Bee gloves | frame wire
queen excluders
  For a great gift why not surprsie someone with a Bee book like the Beekeeping in South Africa for R280 + P+P!! It's packed with over 280 pages of beekeeping info, tips, special management and more!

A gift for family or friends would be the Bee DVD - Bee Secrets and Practical bee course DVD available for R320 +P+P!

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