Hi this is Episode thirty eight of our beekeeping podcast, This week we are talking about Treatments, Swarms and Council Bylaws.

Welcome To the kiwimana buzz, A show where we talk about Beekeeping, gardening and life.

Hi, it’s Gary and Margaret here, We are beekeepers from the hills of the Waitakere Ranges in West Auckland, New Zealand. Our podcasts are about beekeeping, Gardening and bit of politics about environmental issues. We also have been known to go off on tangents about other issues.

What’s happening at Kiwimana

Gary

Thanks for listening to the podcast over the last year

Getting orders finished before Christmas

Helped Barry move some Beehives

Margaret

Visitors bring Chocolate Biscuits and discussed bench hives

Margaret is learning about Top Bar Hives

Margaret has been busy with Beekeeper Services and Beekeeping supplies

Getting Beginner kits finished off

Margaret going to be running a course in the new year

Karen the new guest blog poster, welcome Karen to the Team. Look out for Karen’s new gardening blog posts.

Blog Recap

News Topics

Honey bee treatment ‘applied in wrong way’

Honey bee populations are being allowed to collapse because current treatments are being applied to hives in the wrong way, experts claim.

An article from the telegraph about why treatments are failing, reminder to people to check before after treatments to make sure what you used worked.

A study by Sussex University found that oxalic acid is 97-98% effective in a study that involved 110 colonies.

Prof Francis Ratnieks said: “What we have found is that different methods do have different effects on the mites and the bees, but the best method does not harm the bees and is deadly to the mites”.

Honey bee treatment ‘applied in wrong way’

Bees swarm in Forsyth after accident

Truck Crash in Georgia causes massive Bee losses, local beekeepers help in the cleanup and rescue work.

Bees Swarm in Forsyth After I-75 Accident

There is also an update story about the beekeepers that helped out with the cleanup:-

Big Rig Bees Find New Home

Truck Driver Tells Story Of Bee Attack

Story from New Zealand about a cargo load of bees that shifted during transportation. Here is the drivers account of the incident.

Truck Driver Tells Story Of Bee Attack

Couple stung by bee bylaw

Dallas and Sara Russ’s struggles with the local council bylaws and what constitutes a beehive.

This raises issues with the new Auckland Supercity proposed bylaws, which we read this week in the Beekeeper magazine are being discussed by representatives of the Auckland Council, Auckland Branch of the NBA, Auckland Bee Club and the Franklin Bee Club.

We wonder what these new bylaws are and will these be discussed with all Beekeepers in Auckland?

Couple stung by bee bylaw

13 Fascinating Facts About Bees

A Fascinating article from mental_floss about the honey bee, did you know that bees help catch serial killers?

13 Fascinating Facts About Bees

Questions from you…

How much honey is lost by splitting a hive How to stop robbing bees with mesh

Blog Post Coming Soon

What’s Happening in Karen’s Garden?

Counting Mites with Sugar

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Karen Bean Interview – Another great interview, Gary. Really interesting.

Sorry we couldn’t beat the wallabies for you on the weekend 🙁

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