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There is no minimum size for 25g or less, but there is for 25-50g. 1.5 oz pots are 43g, so need to have 2mm high weight label

Freeman Harding Honey Labelling in the UK have this information 3. The minimum height of figures on the label must be as follows: <50g - 2mm; 50-200g - 3mm; 200g-1kg - 4mm; >1kg - 6mm There is other stuff about labelling there as well:ROFLMAO:

I think this is the line I need to take........:unsure: Not that I would ever use anything not licensed, of course!!

Judging from the short time I spent in Jersey learning how to tract AH, you’re better off trying to find the nest and kill that than trying to kill a few AH at the hive site. That way you’ll get next years queens as well. They did put up bait stations, which also caught wasps, and they killed a...

My solar wax extractor is a magnet for wasps this year. They've found a tiny gap and have robbed all the honey from it. I can see where they’re getting in, but not how! I’m going to try some strategic bits of stuff, and see which they remove.All I need now is a hot day and they will die. But at...

I’ve had to alter the BBE on my labels, and it rubs off easily. A bit of faff to do, but it means I can easily write on the new BBE.

Only if there are boxing reports in it, you don’t want to give them any ideas!

I know Icing sugar is a very hot potato, but I’ve been doing it for a lot of years, and I don’t often have to treat in the Autum/Winter. I do do a count occasionally during the summer/early autumn to check the drop, but have never had a high enough count to have to treat with anything else. But...

I’ve got three Pitcher plants in the greenhouse, do you think they will work?

I agree with you, my colonies with virgin queens seem to attract drones as well. Then once she’s mated they go somewhere else.

I try using them, or at least, I put them on and hope for results! A strong colony with a good flow on, and sometimes the bees will use them, and sometimes they’ll cram honey anywhere except in the rounds. I’ve tried both rounds and squares and it needs a good year for both. When it works it, it...

Good, because I find it hard to believe his bee inspector encourages him to inspect every three days, and if I saw varroa on my bees I wouldn’t be using swarm management to control it.

Thank you, thats useful. There is a garden centre nearby, close enough for the bees to go to, and lots of nice gardens around, but short of knocking on doors and asking people what’s in their gardens, I won’t find out. No RHS gardens around though.

This is mine, but I haven’t a clue what Stenanona is, or where the bees would find it! I find it quite interesting to have three year to compare, and Bramble is top, but then I always take my sample in late September.

I think I’ll put a bait hive out next year, and a camera in it, and see what I get. I’ve got a regular Robin, but wouldn’t mind others in residence.

If you’ve got frames that had sacbrood I would destroy them. The bee inspectors say it only survives a “few weeks” without brood, but overwinter isn’t long enough. I wouldn’t risk cleaning frames that have had disease in them, I’d burn/destroy them, and start again with fresh. It’s not worth the...

Yes, I’ve used that, works very well. Haven’t tried petrol yet, it was just the stock answer at the time.

When I was acquiring some of these “despised” bits of paper, our stock answer was always - Petrol! Apparently, it isn’t, not always.

I was agreeing with you that they need to learn the basics, get some experience of what they are doing and what the bees do, and then make experiments. Thats what you said, and I agree wholeheartedly with that. I do not encourage new beekeepers to try things out before they understand the...