January
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Sat
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2
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Ruxley Apiary: 2pm - 4pm
Colonies checked for wood pecker damage & nucs checked for stores, weather permitting |
Sat
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9
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Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm - 4pm
Colonies checked for wood pecker damage & nuc checked for stores, weather permitting
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Sat
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16
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Ruxley A: 2pm - 4pm
Repairs to older hive parts
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Sat
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23
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Baldwyns A: 2pm - 4pm
Hive parts bought at sales assembled |
Sat
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30
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Baldwyns A: 2pm - 4pm
Talk by Sudi Austin of Flynns Beefarms:
So much more than honey |
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February
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Sat
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6
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Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm - 4pm
Hive parts assembled |
Mon
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8
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Baldwyns Apiary: 7pm – 9pm
Beginners Course 1 Starts |
Sat
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13
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Ruxley A: 2pm - 4pm
Colonies checked for stores; foundation fitted to 2nd hand frames |
Mon
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15
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Baldwyns A: 7pm - 9pm
Beginners Course 2
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Sat
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20
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Ruxley A:1pm – 3pm
Beginners Course 7 (1st Practical)
Baldwyns A: 2pm - 4pm
Colonies checked for stores; foundation fitted to 2nd hand frames |
Mon
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22
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Baldwyns A: 7pm - 9pm:
Beginners Course 3
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Sat
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27
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Baldwyns A: 2pm – 4.30pm
Dr David Aston NBD lecture:
Proteins in Pollen, Nutrition and Stress in Honeybees
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March
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Mon
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1
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Baldwyns Apiary: 7pm - 9pm
Beginners Course 4 |
Sat
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6
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Ruxley Apiary: 2pm - 4pm
Colonies checked for stores, health, viability, stocks equalised
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Mon
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8
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Baldwyns Apiary: 7pm – 9pm
Beginners Course 5 |
Sat
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13
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Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm – 5pm
Routine inspection of colonies, swarm prevention measures undertaken, insertion of Varroa entrapment frames into brood chambers |
Mon
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15
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Baldwyn's Apiary: 7pm – 9pm
Beginners Course 6 |
Sat
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20
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Baldwyns Apiary: 1pm – 3pm
Beginners Course 8 (2nd Practical)
Ruxley Apiary: 2pm – 5pm
Routine inspection of colonies, swarm prevention measures undertaken, insertion of Varroa entrapment frames into brood chambers |
Sat
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27
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Ruxley Apiary: 1pm – 3pm:
Beginners Course 9 (3rd Practical)
Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm – 5pm
Routine inspection of colonies, swarm prevention measures undertaken, insertion of Varroa entrapment frames into brood chambers |
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April
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Sat
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3
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Baldwyns Apiary: 1pm – 3pm
Beginners Course 10 (4th Practical)
Ruxley Apiary: 2pm – 5pm
Routine inspection of colonies, swarm prevention measures undertaken. |
Sat
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10
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Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm – 5pm
Routine inspection of colonies, replacement of Varroa entrapment frames |
Sat
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17
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Ruxley Apiary: 2pm – 5pm
Routine inspection of colonies, swarm prevention measures undertaken, replacement of Varroa entrapment frames |
Sat
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24
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Baldwyns Apiary:
2pm – 5pm routine inspection of colonies, swarm prevention measures undertaken |
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May
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Sat
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1
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Ruxley Apiary: 2pm - 5pm
routine inspection of colonies, swarm prevention, Varroa check; 2nd supers placed onto hives if needed all nucs checked for queen rearing program |
Sat
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8
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Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm – 5pm
Colonies routine checks, swarm prevention, Varroa entrapment frames replaced |
Sat
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15
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Ruxley Apiary: 2pm - 5pm
colonies check, swarm prevention, Varroa checks |
Sat
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22
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Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm - 5pm
colonies check, swarm prevention, Varroa checks |
Sat
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29
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Ruxley Apiary:1pm – 3pm
Queen rearing course starts
2pm - 5pm
colonies checks, swarm prevention, Varroa entrapment frames replaced.
Assessment, if extraction of the spring honey will be needed the following week.
(if so, follow the programme in white italics for the next week) |
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June
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Thur
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3
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Ruxley Apiary: 8am - 9am
Clearer boards inserted, or bees blown out of supers, supers removed to the pavillion ready for extraction |
Sat
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5
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Ruxley Apiary: 10am – 2pm Extraction of spring honey
12:30 light lunch with drinks
Ruxley Apiary: 1pm – 3pm
Queen Rearing Course 2,
grafting
Baldwyns: 1pm - 5pm
Honey Show |
Sat
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12
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Ruxley Apiary: 1pm – 3pm
Queen rearing course 3,
check on success of grafting
Ruxley Apiary: 2pm - 5pm
colonies checks, swarm preventions:
Varroa entrapment check
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Mon
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14
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Ruxley Apiary: 6pm
Queen raising colony dismantled and 1st batch ripe cells distributed into nucs |
Sat
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19
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Ruxley Apiary: 1pm - 3pm
Queen rearing course 4
check on 1st batch emerged virgin queens
2nd batch queen raising colony dismantled, cells distributed into nucs
Baldywns Apiary: 2pm - 5pm
colonies checks, swarm preventions, varroa entrapment check
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Sat
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26
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Ruxley Apiary: 1pm – 3pm:
Queen rearing course 5
check on 2nd batch emerged virgin queens
Ruxley Apiary: 2pm - 5pm:
colonies checks, swarm prevention, Varroa frames replaced
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July
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Sat
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3
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Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm – 5pm:
colonies checks, swarm prevention, additional supers put on if needed.
Nucs with young queens checked if laying, queens marked and clipped |
Sat
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10
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Ruxley Apiary: 2pm – 5pm:
colonies checks, swarm prevention, Varroa frames replaced, checks on nucs for space |
Sat
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17
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Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm – 5pm:
colonies checks, swarm prevention |
Sun
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18
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Cottage Hospice Show: 1pm – 5pm:
Bostall Heath SE2 |
Sat
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24
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Ruxley Apiary: 2pm - 5pm:
colonies checks, last check for Varroa |
Sat
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31
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Baldwyns Apiary:
colonies checks, last check for Varroa |
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August
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Thur
|
5
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Baldwyns Apiary: 6pm – 6:30pm
Bees blown out of supers.
Supers removed to Ruxley pavillion
Ruxley Apiary: 7pm – 7:30pm
Bees blown out of supers.
Supers removed to the pavillion |
Sat
|
7
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Ruxley Apiary: 10am – 4pm
Extraction of honey crop.
12:30 - 1:30 light lunch with drinks
All new members should aim to attend. |
Sat
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14
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Ruxley Apiary & Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm – 5pm
Distribution of empty supers onto colonies for cleaning up |
Sat
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21
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Ruxley Apiary: 2pm – 5pm:
Re-queening, Varroa 1st treatment (Thymol) |
Sat
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28
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Baldwyns Apiary: 2pm – 5pm:
Varroa 1st treatment (Thymol) |
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September
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Sat
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4
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Autumn Fair: 12 - 5pm
Friends of Fairy Hill Park
Cross Mead, Broad Lane
London SE9
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