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Can anybody recommend beekeeping insurance tHat covers theft of hives from remote out apiaries (somebody else's land) with less than ten hives?

Last year I Got caught out in the swarm season without enough equipment. I did manage one successful artificial swarm into a spare hive at the same apiary. But this year I have some polynucs ready and a second apiary site several miles away that I want to get started at. I was wondering how best...

I mistakenly jarred up a batch of osr soft set honey too quickly, and am left with several jars with white froth on the top. I didn't want it to get too thick to jar. How long do people leave their extracted honey to settle before jarring up?

does Heather honey have a tendency to ferment?

Any recommendations for transporting an extinguished, but still hot smoker in the back of a car? Wooden box, metal box, what do people use?

Are the national poly nucs made by maisemore exactly the same thing as you get from paynes ? They look very similar in photos.

At what point should you think about having to submit a self assessment tax return and declare honey sales?

I saw some wax moth larvae in the brood area of one of my hives earlier in the year. Now all the colonies have been treated for varroa and fed with syrup ready for winter. The super frames are being stored and I am pondering treating these with certan. Not sure if I should and how to treat the...

I have a 5 kg bucket of osr honey from earlier in the season. Refractometer tells me that this is 18 per cent water. I now also have a 10 kg bucket of mixed summer honey, the refractometer tells me that this is 21 per cent water. In order to produce something that is below the necessary 20...

Rather than selling my honey in jars, I wondered if I can find a buyer who would want it by the bucket? How much should I expect to get per pound if selling osr honey in bulk?

A couple of my colonies have done well this year, but another couple on the same site have really low honey yield. All disease free, all queens less than two years old. I suspect that the low yielding queens genes are responsible, and so plan to requeen with new queens f1 s ? Any recommendations ?

I have been caught out this season. I naively left myself without the essential spare equipment to cope with the swarms, and was forced to pay top prices and to wait ages by the suppliers (who also seemed to have been caught out by not having sufficient stock levels). In recent years, when have...

Today saw an approximately 2cm cream white maggot moving fast amongst brood cells. The bees didn't bother it. Anybody know what this is likely to be? Maybe Just a moth larvae? It was surprisingly fast and agile.

Is it possible to infuse bees wax with something like lavender oil ?

Is anybody else's Maisemore order taking ages to be delivered?

Is it enough to place a sheet of tempered glass over an inch deep stainless steel tray, fill it with all the odds and sods from cleaning out the hives, and leave it out on the lawn on a sunny day, propped up at one end?

I hived a captured swarm. Assuming the queen is fertile and mated, how long before she will start to lay eggs in her new hive? There is plenty of drawn comb available. It has only been a week so far. Plenty of pollen and stores visible already. Is an egg laying delay usual?

Rather than buying more equipment for AS. With 2 year old queens and swarm cells, is my best option to squish the old queen and introduce a new £30 mated queen of known quality?

Is this year swarmier than usual? If so, why? Weather? Or have I just got bees that are more inclined to swarming? (Nice tempered Buckfast)

.... the maisemore 'rock bottom' versus the Thornes 'budget' version. Is there much difference in quality? Any other budget recommendations?