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I extract, filter through a Thornes double wire strainer into a honey bucket, leave it for 24-48h to let bubbles rise, then bottle it. My personal experience is that it contains small crystals already because it has started to granulate and some of those go through the filters, that is enough...

I invoke Betteridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

I've bought honey in wine bottles... https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=E038E87D47E62972!3047&authkey=!AA_vPEa5fL9zNsw&v=3&ithint=photo%2cJPG

Try looking up "we want plates" on Facebook ;-)

I've become very cautious about OSR. It can pass the shake test and be fine for a while, but when it part-crystallises and the remaining liquid in the jar is therefore diluted, fermentation can start. Very messy

Wind, rain, temperature, forage - so variable place to place and day to day. Mine went ballistic for 2 weeks in early May; much slower week last week, judging by stores and new brood. Forecast says 12 deg max on Wed and 6 overnight - they will be burning honey to keep warm! OSR going over...

Thanks Goran. I found this about Black Locust, which seems to sum things up well: "Black locust (robinia pseudoacacia) is a tree that is both hated and loved. On one side of the fence you will find people who say that black locust is a horrible invasive species. On the other side of the...

Love it - I'd not heard that before. Neither the EC nor the EEC exist, by the way. John Major took us out of the latter via Maastricht in 1993 and the EC was wound up via Lisbon while Brown was dithering in 2009. At least some of the people who object to the EU would object a lot less to the...

And it's a "pseudoacacia", not a real acacia. From what I've read and observations in France, it looks as if it falls into the same category as Himalayan Balsam: good for bees/honey but actually something of an invasive menace. I'd be interested in your comments Goran This was on the Canal du...

2 years ago today I was dealing with queen cells. Today I gave the same colony in the same place, with the daughter queen, a frame of honey because I'm so concerned about how low they have got in the last 2 weeks OSR just starting to flower, but there is a lot less of it than the last 2 years...

Bees working Viburnum here on 20 December - I was so shocked I recorded it! Dandelion & ***** willow today. Still plenty of snowdrop, despite them having been out since Jan

A porcelain teapot with a bumblebee on it - very nice A jar of pine honey from Eastern France - an acquired taste...maybe 'The Bees' by Laline Paull - see my mini review on the bee books thread Seven colonies still surviving in seven hives - thank you to Melisseus, Brigid or any other supreme...

I'm reading The Bees by Laline Paull - which has one other reference on the forum. This is pretty weird and will not appeal to everyone - some would find it seriously irritating, I think. It's written from the perspective of a worker bee, so highly anthropomorphic. The author clearly knows a...

Er - just for the record, I don't think I did. I do find it illogical that if I said I was a dog-meat eater, there might be more people who want to call me that I'd quite like to see some Welsh (and English) uplands revert to something wilder and more diverse than barren, wet, monotonous...

No one has posted any evidence that the cull has had any impact on TB. I assume there is none. The original BBC report looks like pure rhetoric (which I think we call "spin" nowadays?) from all sides The Co-Op has sold its land to the Wellcome Trust (an unfortunate by-product of the Co-Op...

I just heard from a friend planning a skiing Xmas who says there is none on the Austrian Alps either Strange times

It came south a little later. I took this on the 19th

On this forum, the mere mention of matchsticks can get you a red card For the record, I put cardboard or a bit of ply over the feedholes and an old cushion in a super over the crownboard. Matches stay in the bee shed, getting damp ready for lighting the smoker in the spring

In the sunny weather last week they were fetching in gigantic loads. Even today - grey and dreary, 11C, 12mph east wind - they are still fetching it in smaller loads - as much as they can get before they freeze to death, I should think