Peter Klauza
Shook swarms and Nosema
Why would you do a shook swarm? To discourage swarming and disease The shook swarm method is used in beekeeping to switch a colony of...
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Peter Klauza
- May 4
- 2 min
Paradoxes and Epigenetics
“Paradox of our age, totally.” A quote from the Dali Lama, a wise old man, but he doesn’t keep bees ! The paradox is that we are richer...
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Peter Klauza
- Apr 29
- 2 min
Reflections
After many years of beekeeping and the challenges and struggles that I’ve faced, I’m scaling down my operations. At my height I had ONE...
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Peter Klauza
- Mar 27
- 2 min
Happy Easter
May I take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Easter. You should have done your first annual inspection by now, and know what state...
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Peter Klauza
- May 8, 2023
- 3 min
Spring Update
Hello there , thankyou for reading this months Blog. Above you can see Mike, a trainee beekeeper at the apiary last week, helping me out....
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Peter Klauza
- Apr 23, 2023
- 3 min
PREVENTING YOUR BEES FROM SWARMING IN MAY
May is synonymous with swarming. Swarming is the beekeepers nightmare. There is a lot of theory about managing and preventing swarming....
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Peter Klauza
- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
New To beekeeping?
This week I searched three of my hives for a Queen who was to accompany 5 frames of brood that had been boxed up this week to be sold. In...
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Peter Klauza
- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
An opinion on City Centre Bees
I read an article recently that claimed that there were too many bee’s in London to support the amount of forage available. London is...
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Peter Klauza
- Feb 13, 2022
- 2 min
Tips on Buying Bee’s
As you are aware Ethical Bee Co will be selling over wintered bee’s with new good queens this year. The process is simple you call up to...
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Peter Klauza
- Jan 15, 2022
- 2 min
MID WINTER UPDATE
If you have been following the progress of the Ethical Bee company you will know that we have gone from strength to strength since the...
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Peter Klauza
- Feb 18, 2021
- 1 min
February Update
You’ve done everything right. There is activity around your hive. Your bee’s have survived the winter. As Spring approaches we have not...
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Peter Klauza
- Jul 24, 2020
- 2 min
The July Review
It’s been a fortnight since my last hive inspections and the successful course I gave in June. During my last course this is what my...
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Peter Klauza
- Jul 1, 2020
- 2 min
Reflections on last Saturday's bee keeping course
Saturday 27th June proved to be a highly successful training day. Everyone enjoyed themselves, which is what bee keeping is all about. A...
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Peter Klauza
- Sep 16, 2019
- 1 min
Bee keeping Course
A review of the crash course in Bee keeping Last Saturday the 14th September, the weather was perfect for bee keeping and delivering a...
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