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    Three feet or three miles

    I've been pondering the moving of bees and was wondering if moving them three miles or more is actually bad for the colony but we don't notice the problem. If moving more than three feet, the old saying tells us to move them more than three miles; otherwise a certain proportion of foragers will...
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    Honey set in feeder

    Hi, I'm trying to feed some honey back to a colony through a rapid feeder. I checked today and the honey has almost set solid, I can see the bees are trying to work the feeder, but they aren't able to take very much. I was planning to take this honey off, liquify it and then let it down...
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    Metal frame runners or not

    Hi, All the equipment I currently have has either metal or plastic frame runners. I'm about to order some new brood boxes and whilst some suppliers are a bit cheaper, their brood boxes have an angled lip instead of metal frame runners. When everything gets well and truely proplised down, I...
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