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Meadowvale Honey

Locality: Varsity Lakes, Queensland

Phone: +61 418 851 352

Address: Loder Street Biggera Waters 4216 Varsity Lakes, QLD, Australia

Website: https://meadowvale-honey-supplies.myshopify.com

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24.01.2022 Have you ever wondered where beeswax comes from? Here is an amazing photo of a bee's wax producing glands. Beeswax (Cera alba) is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis. The wax is formed into "scales" by eight wax-producing glands in the abdominal segments of worker bees, who discard it in or at the hive. The hive workers collect and use it to form cells for honey-storage and larval and pupal protection within the hive.

21.01.2022 "WINTER IS COMING" It’s that time of year that our girls are starting to think about the approaching winter. Word has GOT around within the hives that "Winter is Coming" Lucky for our girls they don’t have to contend with snow like in the photo. The girls have been extremely busy building up their stores of honey so they have plenty of food to eat when nectar sources are scarce. We will see our queens slowly reduce their egg laying in order to start downsizing the colony. "...Did you know that a viable queen during the peak time of the season can lay up to 2000 eggs per day".....amazing right!!!! The workers will now start losing their patience with the lazy male bees (Drones) for they won’t want them eating their valuable winter stores. The girls will start kicking them out of the hive and have been known to chew their wings so they can’t fly back in after being kicked out....that's harsh!! So as a bee keeper, we start preparing ourselves. We will make assessments of each colony one by one. Our approach is to pull each and every hive apart, starting with the Brood box (where the queen lives). Complete the last pest and disease inspection for the season to ensure they're still nice and healthy. Check to see if there's enough room for the colony to continue raising their young brood. Ensure they’re not honey bound. Check to see if they have adequate pollen stores. We will consider removing any excess honey boxes off the hive but leave enough honey for them to last over winter. At Meadowvale we aim to leave 1 full box of honey on for the girls over winter and extract the remainder. They have worked extremely hard to build up their stores so we want them to have a little rest during the cold and enjoy their spoils. With removing the excess boxes we will be assisting the girls in keeping their hive warm during the colder months by reducing the open space, so we "pack them down" as the saying goes. The brood box needs to stay at an average temperature of 34 Degrees Celsius for optimal brood development regardless of the outside temperature hence the requirement to reduce empty voids. So over winter we will continue to look after our girls to make sure they are comfortable and remain healthy while they have a little break. We envisage a busy start to the new season later in the year as our apiary expands and a further 10 hives come online to become honey production hives.

21.01.2022 Interesting video of the first 21 days of a bees life

19.01.2022 We buy good clean wax for $15 a kg (T&C apply). All the wax we buy goes into making foundation. Give us a call! Kingaroy- 0427 946 614 Morayfield- 0484 598 580 #nowaxnofoundation #beekeeping #beekeepingsupplies #spring #bee #beewax #honey

18.01.2022 Wow....I'm so glad I don't have to climb trees like this to get our honey. https://youtu.be/3W_iMve4xvg

16.01.2022 Interesting article......though this particular story isn't backed up by medical proof, a lot of people swear by the health benefits of natural honey.

15.01.2022 Today we had a customer who had some girls who took up residence in BBQ gas bottle which had the end cut off along with holes drilled in it. With the assistance of Kevin from Beezone Apiaries we carefully removed the girls along with their brood and food stores. After which we placed them into a nucleus hive. Here they will be able to expand their hive once spring arrives. It won't take these girls long before they will be asking for a bigger home again. Happy to see they were disease free and were a very calm hive overall. Our customer was extremely happy and is looking forward to learning more about bees and starting his beekeeping journey.

08.01.2022 Last weekend saw us set up our very first backyard beehive right under the roofline of a back patio. We used a Paradise Beebox 6 frame NucMate and colour coded it to match the surrounding colour scheme. It's an amazing experience to cohabitate with the bees. This particular hive is what we call a split, 4 frames of bees taken from a large hive including the queen and placed into a 6 frame hive. We have been amazed to how quickly the girls have drawn out comb on the 2 frames o...f foundation. They have been getting up before sunrise to start their busy day and already we are making arrangements to place them into a bigger hive in a weeks’ time or so. This is one of the benefits of keeping bees in suburbia, they have an abundance of flowers to forage on for pollen and nectar. If you grow your own vegetables or fruit trees the bees provide an essential service for you, not to mention the delicious natural honey they can share with us. Though our focus remains on our main apiary located in the lush rolling valleys of Ormeau we are very excited to branch out into this area of beekeeping. Rewarding for ourselves and for the lucky suburban hosts who want to experience the wonders of beekeeping and what bees have to offer.

05.01.2022 We just hope that our government will tackle this head on. Non action on the governments part will only see the consumer being supplied with inferior product and hard working beekeepers going to the wall. This article does not even touch on what other risks are involved ie diseases that can be brought in with honey imports.

02.01.2022 There's never a down time when it comes to beekeeping at this time of year. If it's raining then its time for assembling, indoor painting, wiring up frames, embedding wax foundation, stenciling, making up emlocks and maintenance. Its a full time job!!!!....but loving every minute of it.