Contents

Bees

1. Importance

2. Colony - lifecycle

3. Seasonal guide

4. Queen cells

5. Collecting swarms

6. Swarm prevention

7. Swarm control

8. Bee Health

9. Varroa

10. Aggression

11. Queenless

12. Robbing

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Beekeeping

1. Considerations - before you keep bees

2. Equipment

3. Inspections

4. Swarming

5. Uniting colonies / introducing queens

6. Human Health

7. Feeding

8. Honey processing

9. Innovations

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Hives

1. Beebox hive

2. Hive assembly

3. Cleaning hives

4. Siting & moving hives

5. Best hive - review of some hives

6. Poly or wood hive - which s best

7. Environmental impact

8. Damp

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Frames

1F. Plastic frames

2F. Frames without foundation

3F. Cleaning frames

4F. Waxing frames

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Miscellaneous

• Anaphylaxis

• Asian hornets

• Apiary site

• Asian hornets

• Basic assessment

• Bee space

• Brood calendar

• Clumps of bees

• Cluster

• Course

• Doolittle

• Exploring beekeeping

• Finding queens

• Flowers

• Foraging

• Genetics

• Heroes - ideas for helping nature

• Hive insulation

• Hive records

• Hive records template

• Honey - properties

• Labelling honey jars

• Manual for Beebox hives

• Modified Snelgrove 2

• Plastic - why use

• Poisoning

• Research

• Reviews - of Beeboxes

• Replacing boxes

• Start beekeeping- considerations

• Thymol - for preserving sugar syrup

• Treatments - Nosema

• Using poly hives

• Wax moth

• Wax production

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Arty & quizzes

24. Poems

25. Flowers for bees

26. Fun quiz

27. Serious quiz

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About

• Me

• Contact

• Course

• Glossary

• Hive terminology

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