BEEKEEPING
Success depends on vigour of the queen
T
Some arithmetic by the Eastern Highveld Beekeepers!
he success of a
beekeeping venture is Association chairman Peter Clark to illustrate the ongoing
dictated by the value of value of good queens in your venture
a good queen as head of the
Here are some numbers that
For our exercise, in our first
colony. Failing queens spell
illustrate the value of a good
year we start with 20 strong
disaster.
queen.
swarms headed by young one
year old queens. As an
illustration, our apiary of 20
strong hives is in a cattle
farming area somewhere on
the Highveld, where we have
a eucalyptus woodlot of 2 000
spring and sum