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Good point. As far as I’m aware, it hasn’t been tested. However, the bees started to draw out the super frames quite late in the season and this would be the very first honey crop of that colony. So my guess would be that the honey in the great majority of the frames isn’t ripe, although I...

Good morning *EDIT* the bees haven’t capped any of the frames, in case this detail makes any difference to your answers A fellow beekeeper asked me if it would be ok if she collected her super frames now and freeze them for a few days before extracting. She has a very tight timetable that...

Thank you all for your answers. Does anyone know if we’re allowed to dispose of our old combs in compost bins in the UK? I’ve just found out from beesource.com that composting is many American beekeepers’ preferred method of disposing of old combs. Here’s the link...

Thanks, Wilco! Do you think that a hair dryer could be used instead of a steamer or the oven?

Hertfordshire

Hi I don’t have have an incinerator. Would burying old combs be ok in terms of getting rid of them? I’m assuming that one shouldn’t just dispose of them in household bins, but I don’t know. Also, is there a place/company where beekeepers take old combs to be incinerated in the South East? Thanks

In which county are you located and how much are you seeking you WBCs for?

2 brood boxes, 1 super below bottom brood, 1 super above top brood. Plastic varroa board underneath bottom super, metal board underneath plastic one. The (maybe fermented?) honey like substance was on the same face of the plastic varroa board - varroa and debris on the left hand side, honey...

Thanks! My concern was that somehow the fermented honey could potentially upset the bees’ digestive system, but I don’t have enough knowledge to know whether it would or not. Could the fermentation have been prevented? If so, how?

Hemo, how would you suggest the alleged fermented honey be dealt with? Would the best approach be to let the bees deal with it or do you think it should be extracted and when?

The holes are shut bu the Porter bee escapes. We replace one of them in each hive by the fondant

Yes there is - a foam over each hive’s crown board. But there wasn’t condensation on the plastic varroa board, which is the one immediately underneath the OMF. The water droplets were on the metal board below the plastic one.

Bolts & braces to avoid starvation, I’m assuming.

Yes, bees were alive, peeping out of the crown board holes in all 3 hives

Thanks for the reply. I don’t currently have a photo of the substance, but it definitely didn’t look like slug mucus. It looked like a generous honey drop. No idea how it got there, so that’s why I though maybe a slug or wax moth or something else broke a honey capping and the honey dropped...

Hello, I wonder if anyone could help, please. Yesterday I witnessed 3hive inspections. The main purpose of the inspection was to feed 250grams of fondant each colony. They were Nationals, overwintered and run on 2 brood boxes each, one super underneath the bottom brood box, one above the top...

What do you think of the option of shaking the laying workers near the small nuc; would it be worth trying?

Full size colony in a National hive; would that be ok?

I see. The fellow beekeeper who offered his colony up keeps it in his own garden. If he were to shake the laying worker colony in his garden, would those bees then beg their way into the fellow beekeeper’s small colony and hopefully reinforce it for the winter?

Thanks. So what do you reckon should be done with the laying worker colony; just leave it to fend for themselves until they die? Let them keep producing drones for any late season supersedure in other colonies in the vicinity? Shake the bees out of the frames some metres away from the other...