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Steve Donohoe, Author of "Interviews with Beekeepers"

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Category: Keeping Your Bees Alive

Beekeeping is really about keeping your bees alive. If you can’t manage to do that, you don’t have bees. It is not as easy to be successful as some people think and the learning curve is steep.

dead bees and varroa mites
3 Jul 22 Walrus

Treatment Free

Photo by Maja Dumat - CC BY 2.0 The July 2022 issue of the BBKA…
Beekeeping, Keeping Your Bees Alive
Oxalic acid chemical formula
23 Jun 22 Walrus

Importance of Winter Oxalic

Oxalic acid The point of this article is to encourage beekeepers to carry out mite…
Beekeeping, Keeping Your Bees Alive
Varroa Easy-Check
28 May 22 Walrus

Summer Varroa Check

Varroa mites cause the death of more colonies than most people admit - here I discuss a summer mite check, if only for peace of mind.
Beekeeping, Keeping Your Bees Alive, Lessons and Opinions, Summer Bee Work
jars of honey
31 Mar 22 Walrus

Alternative Points Of View

Walrus Honey is delicious! An era of populism, conspiracy theories, idiotic social media clickbait and…
Importing Bees - Good or Bad?, Keeping Your Bees Alive, Lessons and Opinions
18 Oct 21 Walrus

Learning from Nature

Source: American Bee Journal At the recent autumn convention of Cheshire Beekeepers' Association, Professor Tom…
Keeping Your Bees Alive
Map of my travels
15 Mar 21 Walrus

News from UK and CA

Travels for 'Interviews with Beekeepers' Many people, myself included, find spring to be their favourite…
Beekeepers and the Weather, Interviews With Beekeepers, Keeping Your Bees Alive
red blood cells
8 Mar 21 Walrus

In The Wars

red blood cells I've been in the wars lately, which is why I haven't written…
Keeping Your Bees Alive
28 Jan 21 Walrus

The Fight Continues

Winter is nearly over It won't be long until spring has sprung and beekeepers across…
Keeping Your Bees Alive
Chart 3 'Caged Queen' method
21 Dec 20 Walrus

Charting Brood Breaks

Following on from my article about using brood breaks to help with varroa management, I'm…
Keeping Your Bees Alive
Varroa Mite
12 Dec 20 Walrus

Brood Breaks to Control Varroa

Varroa Mite (https://aristabeeresearch.org/varroa/) Varroa mites have been a big problem for honey bees in most…
Keeping Your Bees Alive
Getting Bees Through Winter
27 Nov 20 Walrus

Zoom!

This week I did a Zoom talk for the Suffolk beekeepers, which was fun. Well,…
Keeping Your Bees Alive
Piglets at 2-3 weeks old
15 Aug 20 Walrus

Pigs on the Wing

Piglets at 2-3 weeks old Many beekeepers in the UK are in the process of…
Keeping Your Bees Alive

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