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Filter your honey through a strainer into a settling tank and leave for around 2 days in a warm room, which allows any air bubbles to rise to the surface, before jarring up.

Set of hives in school from the same book At the end of the row they have run out of veils!

Great Books those Young Farmers Club Booklets Here he is again showing the correct way to handle a brood frame - minus veil of course! This is a later edition of the book. Excellent books for use in school when education was real - in many ways!

Yes and all sorted now. . . . . .

Just to "square the circle" as it were! Moved the hive being robbed, (after closing down for three days), to my rose garden 25yards away. Put branches in front in new location. Bees settled in nicely and built up nicely. Problem solved for the short term. Recently had the offer of an out...

Many thanks again for the advice. So should not be a problem. Will stick to the blowtorch I think. First hive to me moved there at weekend. Will report back. Andy

Many thanks for the above advice. Does a blow torch not get blown out in the open?

So far in my experience of beekeeping I have bee able to light up the smoker easily. First I kept bees in a school, I had a Lab., Bunsen burners - smoker lit in a "flash". I now keep my bees at the back of a greenhouse - so shelter to start up the smoker easily. I now have the opportunity to...

The "6 rule" detracts from the original question - "movement of hive during winter". I have heard that it is possible to move hives short distances in winter with out worrying about the 3' or 3 mile rule. How true is this. For example is it possible to move a hive say 30 yards in winter without...

Just to "Square circle" affected frames extracted fine as itchyhives above suggested. Honey absolutely delicious. Never experienced that volume of pollen in the supers before. No sign of queen cells/cups on inspection of hive from which frames came. All going well. It might also be...

Brood chamber is fine - not to full - no signs of swaming in last weeks check. Bees storing honey in other super as per normal.

Many thanks for that. It's good to learn from the experience of others.

Many thanks for the advice - much appreciated. This quantity of pollen in the supers is new to me. Just out of interest how long can frames like this be kept outside the hive before they have to be returned?

I have just taken off some supers for extraction. In one of the supers the central frames are full of pollen in the central areas with just a little sealed honey around the edges. 1. Is it OK to extract the little honey in these frames around the edges using the extractor. 2. Will the frames...

Here is one of the hives on the school roof (in the 1970's): Sorry did not work for some reason, the url for image is: http://s661.photobucket.com/albums/uu333/RuralStudies/?action=view&current=BeeRoof.jpg

I once kept bees on the flat roof of a school very successfully for several years. Took the children up in very small groups (long way from the edge so quite safe). Then I wrote an article in a journal. The county architects saw it and then told me I had to take them off. Took them down to...

VERY nice. Re-queened originally last year with one, this hive has become a great success so far this year. So I thought I would biuld a new colony with one this year . . . . . . . . . . then I saw that quote at the head of this thread! . . . there comes a time when you have to let nature...

Many thanks to all of you above. This is the only way to check things out - from the expereince of other bee keepers. This is what makes this forum so valuable. You can't belive everthing that you read on the Interent. With out the use of AI, it is almost impossble for most amatuers to...

Have just requeened a hive with a Buckfast Queen. Then I came across this: True Buckfast bees can be very gentle, but anyone who has experience of Buckies crossed out with certain other strains will know that they can be the nastiest bees on the block by some margin. Beginners who buy these...

Many thanks. I have a hive that I want to move 25 yards in a couple of weeks or so. It would be nice if I could avoid taking it two miles away for a while. I will be very interested if the process on this thread works out OK.