Tips & Advice Index

Index to Tips

	Comb Honey	Guide to producing cut comb honey
	Woodware Sizes	Standard measurements for New Zealand hive woodware
	Play Cells	Observations on bees playing with queen cells.
	Vitamin C	Suggestions for using vitamin C to protect against bee sting reactions
	Supering Up	Adding supers for the honey flow
	Easy Solar Wax Melter	Build your own low cost solar wax melter
	Finding Queens 2	More methods for finding queens.
	Deep Foundation	Advantages of using deep foundation
	Beeswax Furniture Polish	Recipes for preparing your own beeswax furniture polish.
	Preserving Woodware	How to assemble and preserve your hive woodware.
	Hive Woodware	How to prepare your own hive woodware.
	Water in the Hive	Discussion on water in the hive, and how to manage it over the winter.
	Basic Mead Recipe	Basic mead recipe, and advice on additives and adjunct to get mead variations with other tastes and qualities.
	Wasps	Advice on managing wasps
	Preparing for Mites	Tips on preparing for the arrival of mites
	Construct a steel hivestand	Description how to build a hivestand from a lenght of reinforcing steel as used in concrete construction
	Checking for Varroa	Description of a "shake test" using icing sugar to check for the presence of varroa mites in a colony
	Finding Queens	Useful way of finding an elusive queen in a colony
	Health & Safety
	Alergic reactions
	Annoying Bees
	Swarm Prevention
	Wasp & Bee Problems
	Colony Management
	Spring Feeding
	Mead Recipe

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