Beekeeping - Short and Sweet

Beekeeping short and sweet. A beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper in fact, just like me! With local schools about to kick out for the Summer holiday’s and our politicians about to go off on their Summer recess I figured it would be a good time to sum up how the season has progressed so far by way of a school report, I remember those school reports I received when I was a kid, just the thought of them sends a shiver down my spine! I never really looked forward to them, anyway, I’ve divided my report into several sections just like the subjects at school and I’ll talk a little about each one in turn.

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Beekeeping Short and Sweet - A beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! This week's podcast is our monthly Q&A, my thanks to everyone that posted questions and comments, it helps me a lot to be able to address genuine questions. Please do take a look at Paul Beardmore's Happy Valley Honey website for the Poly Langstroth Hives. happyvalleyhoney.co.uk Any questions for next months podcast Q&A can be left via my Patreon page www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney or on my website contacts page www.norfolk-honey.co.uk

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Beekeeping Short and Sweet, a podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span! Welcome once again to my weekly podcast, it’s a really busy time of the year for me at the moment, notwithstanding all of the videos, podcast, occasional blog post and social media output, the bees are definitely in need of constant attention. Talking of social media don’t forget we’re on Instagram and Twitter, search for @norfolkhoneyco and you should find me. This week I'm chatting about the apiary in July, things to watch out for, things to do and of course things to enjoy. The website for checking out varroa drop rates can be feound at http://www.nationalbeeunit.com/public/BeeDiseases/varroaCalculator.cfm My thanks to those of you listening via the Patreon page I really appreciate your support. If you’re not familiar with Patreon, it’s a support page where you can help me create more content by signing up to one of my reward tiers and in return you gain access to additional content and support from me. These start from as little as one dollar per month so I believe with the regular, quality content I’m producing one dollar represents excellent value for money. Check it out www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney If you’ve not yet started beekeeping and looking for help and assistance, pop over to my website, www.norfolk-honey.co.uk/getstarted and I’ll do all I can to help out with suggestions and recommendations for you. 

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Queen rearing using the Nicot system has to be one of the easiest methods of producing a reasonable number of queen cells with the minimum amount of hassle. In today's podcast, I discuss a previous method of queen rearing called the Alley method which turned out to be my favourite from last season and then how I use the Nicot system for raising around 15-20 queen cells per batch.The Nicot system was sent to me to try out last year by UK based online beekeeping specialists Bee Equipment. Check out their website, https://bee-equipment.co.uk/collections/queen-rearing-kits/products/queen-cup-system-starter-kitThere are cheaper versions available online but they seem to be poorly made when compared to the original system, I'd always rather opt for kit that's going to work rather than a cheaper version that is going to frustrate me!Check out my Patreon page here; www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney

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Beekeeping Short and Sweet, a beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me!This week I take a look at my Summer Varroa Treatments and discuss a worrying infection in one of my colonies, Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus.Through most of the Summer I use a mechanical method of removing varroa mites but when I split colonies I switch to a treatment. In today's podcast, I talk about how I use this.Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus has taken hold of one of my colonies and I'm not sure there's much I can do with it except wait and see!I have carried out a bit of research in the last month reading quite a few scientific articles about the problem but there doesn't seem to be much practical help out there for beekeepers.The website I used for the Varroa Calculation is the National Bee Units website http://www.nationalbeeunit.com/The scientific papers I have read can be found using Google Scholar and searching Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus.The primary source of my reading is a book called Honeybee Pests, Predators and Diseases edited by Morse and Flottum. You can grab a copy of this book via a link on my website https://www.norfolk-honey.co.uk/beekeeping-booksCheck out my support page at www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney were you can help me create more content and access special rewards in return.Keep the messages coming and I'll catch up with you all next week.

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My Monthly Beekeeping Q&A, Supers, swarms, Queens and more!A beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me!This month we have some great questions relating to the National Bee Unit here in the UK, When to feed swarms, how to get bees to move into a super when they refuse and which way round to put on a queen excluder.I also discuss colonies that swarm and then return to the hive, when is it too late to start a first year nuc, drone foundation in the supers and much more.The NBU can be found at http://www.nationalbeeunit.com/Sign up to my patreon page for lots of rewards at www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney

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June In The Apiary! Extracting Early Season Honey, Swarming and Inspections. Beekeeping Short and Sweet. A podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! Welcome once again to my weekly podcast and My thanks to those of you listening via the Patreon page I really appreciate your support. If you’re not familiar with Patreon, it’s a support page where you can help me create more content by signing up to one of my reward tiers and in return you gain access to additional content and support from me. These start from as little as one dollar per month. I don’t charge per video or per podcast so I believe with the regular, quality content I’m producing one dollar represents excellent value for money. If you’ve not yet started beekeeping and looking for help and assistance, pop over to my website, www.norfolk-honey.co.uk/getstarted and I’ll do all I can to help out with suggestions and recommendations for you. Again, I’ll leave links to the various websites in this week’s show notes as usual. 

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In my second queen rearing podcast I discuss a very simple technique of creating new queens from an existing hive that has thrown up queen cells. I call it the "Two Nucs" method of queen rearing, a method that has been in use by beekeepers for many years and one that can create many new colonies over the course of a season. No complicated equipment is required just a couple of spare nuc boxes. If you would like to get early access to my weekly podcast please check out my support page www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney I use a range of reference material including a few very good books, if you'd like to see the queen rearing books I use, check out my reading list on my website www.norfolk-honey.co.uk/readinglist. Possibly one of the best sources of accurate beekeeping information currently available on the internet is a website managed by Roger Patterson here in the UK, originally set up by a beekeeper called Dave Cushman. www.dave-cushman.net

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