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I had queens posted on Monday from Germany. At 01.58 this morning they left Heathrow and are on there way to in transit. No sign of them yet (13.55) still hope today or maybe tomorrow

I have a couple of buckets of honey extracted beginning of May this year, It set like concrete and was a lovely pure white colour. I have had it in the warming cabinet now at 40 degrees for 24hours but it is still like custard thickness and not clear and runny. My plan was get it nice and runny...

question in the title really... Whats the best temperature 🌡 for a warming cabinet please? I understand too much heat is not good for honey so what is best temp and how long for to melt large bucket of concrete to mix and cream.

Food hygiene certificate What level would be required please for pacjaging and selling honey? 1, 2 or 3

What have you got stuck if you dont mind me asking? I have a few bits I was going to order but will go elsewhere if there going to take sll summer

Were they from same place as last years?

Great year round south lincs for bumbles, theres loads.

Last week took 7 supers of rape honey off my 2 producing home hives, 2 were crystallised. I added the 5 good ones back the same day after extracting and today they are all full again and all 5 are nearly capped. Looks like another extraction this week sometime. Farmland all around and on the...

Thanks Ian, shes in her 2nd season and in single brood but a full brood chamber. May bleed some brood off for other hives and see how it goes.

Hi I have a queen in a hive that is a pure pleasure to work with and very prolific l. I have done s couple of splits from her and her daughters are very nice bees also. To keep this queen laying for as long as possible do people just keep the queen's they breed from in normal hives or hive them...

I have a very strong brood + 1/2 hive that has had its rape honey taken off, extracted and 3 supers added back on that they are refilling at a rate. Was originally 4 supers. I would like to convert them to double brood but not lose any honey production or new box filled with honey. Is it just...

I received mine over 2 weeks ago so they are sending out.

I intend to take off all OSR honey tomorrow from my hives. The bees are still very busy and there allot of hawthorn etc and the forecast looks good for a period. Question is I will add the wet supers back for the bees and I'm sure they will refill with more spring nectar. Do I need to remove...

I tried to take 6 supers off at the weekend of OSR and it was not ripe I'm leaving until Friday and then off it comes. Weather then picks up so hopefully they will start to refill the supers ready for the August harvest.

I have 7 full supers on my 2 garden hives that will be mostly OSR honey as the 2 fields are less than 300 yards away. They are so full that I am struggling to lift the supers off the hives. The rape has now gone over with very little yellow left in the fields. I decided to take off today but...

So checked my 2 hives and 1 nuc that I have at home in the garden this morning.... the hive that balled the queen a couple of weeks back and I added a frame of eggs to last week as they ended up as I thought hopelessly Q- now seem to have a new laying Queen and the frame of eggs has some nice...

Thanks for all that info B+ That will help me a great deal in the coming weeks.

I am going to graft for the first time this year and am really interested in this way of raising my queens in a Q- hive rather than messing around with starter and finisher. What is your prep & process please B+ Do you just remove the queen into a nuc and add more nurse bees and capped brood? Or...

At the moment all supers are not capped apart from around 1cm at the top of each frame. I aim to do the shake test at the weekend as by then the osr will be over. Hawthorn is out all over here so will be having a look early morning before they start putting unripe nectar on top of what's in...

In my 3 years I have never had 4 supers on a hive at this time of the year, I currently have 3 hives that are now filling their 4th The OSR is now losing its colour and I think by end of next week it will of turned green. Question is do I return all 4 empty supers to the hives or just maybe 2...