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register and you can test two honey's for free National Honey Monitoring Scheme

I'm ex Herts BKA beekeeper but now live near Arnos Grove London and sell honey at my door for £8/350g or 2 for £15, 3 for£20. i am about average for london suburbs but LBKA sell their central london honey for £1 per ounce so£8 for 227g or £12 for 340g or £15/16 per lb. i have sold honey at LBKA...

it was in the bucket and when i transferred it to the settling honey tank (two buckets)mixed , i was very worried as the honey was not viscous that i tested it in the comb. as it came out of the extractor and in the buckets and aslo byrefractor and hydrometed that sinks about 7"

Urocerus Gigas 9wood wasp) cannot sting you as they have no sting

i have just extracted three fully capped supers of lime and by refractor and hydrometer at 21c (70f) the water content was 21%, I placed the buckets in a warming cabinet at 40c for two days, (lids off and gauze over tops) and the water content reduced to 18.5%

I have a mentee this year who just cannot understand how you balance a nine frame extractor if you have lfull and part full frames, despite showing her several time ..twice i have left her in charge while i make a cup of tea to find the extractoer shaking itself to bits and dancing around the floor

I have one colony that has hundereds of drone even in mid winter, it has been like that for the last five years, it is on a flat green sedum roof of a university and is in a heat trap as suuround by glass windows on three sides, well insulated 14x12 poly box and normally well stocked with stores

The strips a design to deliver a fixed amout on Amitraz pesticide that kills the mite but not kill your bees, using extra strips of amitraz to give a higher doses will kill your bee and will be illegal as the VMD approve the treatment to be used in only in accordance with the approved instrction

Agree, i never take out the workers from a travel cage, removing them comes from that with imported queens you used to have to send the workers to MAFF for testing, leaving them in means you get more queen pheromone out to the new colony quicker. i also alway put the travel cage in within 30mins...

cheapest stainless steel 4 frame radial #I have found is Park beekeeping supplies, very compact , it also takes a three frame tangelial cage and will extract tangentially national Broods and Commercial brood frames

They are one and the same thing and not meaningless just a DIFFERENT CONVENTION OF WRITING EZ)-10-Hydroxydec-2-enoic acid Synonyms 10-Hydroxydec-α-enoic acid; 10-Hydroxy-α-decenoic acid; 10-Hydroxy-2-decenoic acid;

yep a 3 bedroom house can cost you £1,000,000, it is not the real world, i just wonder if covid19 and working from home will stop the house price stupidity. i think one reason why London honey prices are high is the little amount of honey central London colonies produce This is due to lack and...

recommended price by the London BKA is £1 per oz, so that is £16 per lb in central london I cannot achieve that price in outer London suburbs but £10 per lb is the lowest i have seen honey sold at the door and shops £13 or 14 per lb

By buying in honey and relabelling you change from a "prime producer of small amounts of animal products" to a "processor" You, therefore, fall under different requirement s of the food Act and you need a hygiene certificate and registered your premises will the local council rather than...

freeman& Harding worth considering as the give 10% off for BBKA member https://www.freemanharding.co.uk/bulk-orders?page=2

doesn't appear that many on here do anything for the AHAT, it a bit like that in my area one BKA had not read the AHAT email/memo so had done nothing, other had appointed a small team of two or three but only put the AHAT lead on the er2 soonly they appeared on the map, co confusion whether...

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fumigate the colony with a suphur strip to euthanase it then burn the frames and dead bees otherwise it will infect your new stock when you get it

fumigate the colony with a suphur strip to euthanase it then burn the frames and dead bees otherwise it will infect your new stock when you get it

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