This month Frank discusses his experience during Bee Week, how to manage queen cells and control yarroa and PMS, comments on wasps and tutu and recommends a book about hive increase. Bee Week was an interesting experience. On a warmish afternoon, a very young reporter and a photographer turned up from The Dominion Post and we proceeded to my nearest apiary. Only a few bees were flying, bringing in pollen from gorse bushes a kilometre away. They jumped at the offer of bee suits, as they weren't suitably dressed for the outdoors or the country.
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