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You've got me a bit concerned now.The little darlings got me three times today on the leg and goodness knows how many wasp stings I've had over the years.

The proper agitating machines are expensive.You would need a lot of hives on heather annually to justify cost unless you have money and space spare.Try scraping back to foundation and pressing.It works well.If you're dealing with too much heather honey annually then invest in better equipment

I use a large fruit press,it will hold two 30lb buckets of heather/wax mix.Its a lot of work.Flows quickly to start but then you need to put some serious pressure on it.After the initial quick flow of honey it become a slow job of having to open the press to break up the wax and honey and press...

Make a warming cabinet out of old fridge or a large insulated ply cabinet with a tube heater and stc1000 thermostat or similar.

Just taken 20 this year as nothing for last 2 years and heather isnt looking too good but is starting to flower .Knowing my luck it'll be an awesome flow as ive taken so few hives.I suppose I'll soon find out.

I tried black gloves once........never again.

The heather looked good to start but just didnt seem to quite get there in colour.we had a few decent days in weather but no nectar.

Yes i will.just hope its not like the last couple of seasons.didnt have a single frame of heather last year.This year has to be good(maybe being a bit optimistic there)but surely it cant be three bad heather crops in a row.

If Im travelling to other sites with q cells,I put them in a sandwich bag with a string on handles and put around my neck and down my top to keep them warm.They're in roller cages so they don't get squashed.Never had any issues with queens not hatching.

What Summer flow?feeding all spring just to keep them alive and very little going in the last week.Weather forecast is not good for the next week either. Last year was really bad but I can see this year being even worse. You've got to love beekeeping in Britain,especially wales

How very true emyr

That just brought back some memories

May 3rd was first time I heard a cuckoo this year

Short on drones yet so giving it a couple of weeks

Might sell well in a gothic niche market but i dont know any goths. I dont think it'll be such a good heading for the farm shop.

I use gorilla clear

If I remember rightly it was Murray(into the lions den)who had Douglas fir boxes that were really old

Bees came through winter in poor shape after all the rain over winter,they just wouldn't build up early on so they couldn't take advantage of the good spring weather.The good weather at my location didn't run with the nectar flows.raining or dreary all through blackberry flowering period and a...

Same here.only get star rating if doing cut comb as its being handled

I had despatched email yesterday on a fairly large order