Top tip: Ensure your first inspection is a breeze, with our newly released Flow Beekeeping Caddy and Accessories Set.
The caddy helps you store, organise and transport your beekeeping essentials with ease and comes with a range of handy accessories.
Our Flow Hive bundle has everything you need this spring.
The bundle comes complete with our most popular Flow Hive, a bee suit in organic cotton, stainless steel smoker, goatskin gloves, J-hive tool, Flow Veil and a sweet saving!
If you’re an experienced beekeeper, you’ll know it’s time to assemble your brood frames and get your spare brood boxes built.
With warmer weather, your queen will amp up her egg-laying which means your colony will expand. You don’t want to get caught out by a colony that’s ready to reproduce with nowhere to house them!
Top Tip: Many experienced beekeeper’s keep a swarm capture kit on hand (sometimes even in their car!) throughout beekeeping season, consisting of a brood box, brood frames, base, roof and a suit.
As things start to ramp up in the apiary, it’s a great time to check your equipment – there’s nothing worse than discovering a hole in your bee suit hood when you’re up close and personal with an open hive!
Inspect your safety equipment and make sure you have everything you’ll need coming into the new season.
Re-oil cedar hives or check to see if your Araucaria paint jobs need a new coat.
Top Tip: When re-treating timber components, use no VOC non-toxic treatments – these can be reapplied while the bees are in the hive. Make sure you wear protective clothing.
Swarming is the natural way bees reproduce and multiply, however, it’s considered good beekeeping practice to take steps to avoid. Feral colonies can pose a risk to the public, your bees, other beekeepers, and honey bee biosecurity in your country.
If your bees swarm, your colony will be reduced as will their nectar resources and your hive may be left vulnerable to pests and diseases.
Like most beekeeping practices, swarm mitigation is about understanding bee behaviour and attempting to meet their needs before they act.
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