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Comb being drawn out this year is exceedingly yellow. Is that from foraging on willow, osr, and/or dandelion?

Has anyone used one for a 30lb bucket and if so is it any good? I need to make a warming cabinet, but I only need to warm one bucket at a time, so it seems a possible answer without MORE kit in the garage.

Regarding the price of supermarket honey…..

I collected a very small swarm on Saturday, which I was told were the survivors of a colony which suffered wasp attack while in an unused brick chimney. There were around 500 or so bees I reckon, which dutifully went into my nuc and were settled in at home. Sunday they were coming out and...

I have a colony still on double brood, that had no stores at all in the brood boxes. I have removed the supers which had been mostly consumed. I have fed the colony three times, about three litres of syrup in an English feeder. Each time it has been taken down overnight. The colony is heaving...

Does anyone have any tips on how to vape a Payne’s nuc with a Varrox wand? I‘ve not needed to do so before and it appears to be a little tricky, but I bet someone has found an effective way? TIA, Poot

H3 Nucleus H1 H4 But….H2

I have a queenless colony as a sealed cell left on has not produced a queen. I had removed the queen to a nuc as part of swarm prevention. The colony swarmed anyway (!) and I broke down the swarm cells leaving one sealed cell on 28th May. I will recheck in a few days to see if there’s any...

This is the most interest this nuc has attracted! She’s busy setting up home in there……

I expect many will be at the point of extracting hawthorn (with dandelion) honey - possibly for the first time. Are there any tips specific to this honey mix that will make the delightful process easier - and most effective? Is it particularly gloopy?

Today it was very warm. I tackled hive 2 which overwintered on brood and a half 🤯 (breaking my promise to myself!) and a nadired super. Lots of space - all poly. I have not seen a colony this big this early in the season! It was heaving! The top super contained stores and eggs with drone brood...

Hmmmm?

About a week of debris - under Abelo hive, standing on pallets. Looks like poo from some critter or other. Bee debris from gathering dead ones and eating in relative comfort on the tray? But what critter?

I thought I’d attach a photo of the tray following a 24 hour drop after vaping, to show how effective it is. The thing that has unnerved me is this colony was a nuc in late May which has become a large colony now - but just look at the number of mites! And they are only the mites that were on...

I have a quantity of what was soft set honey that has separated into layers in the jar. Some, stored in my garage have re- liquified in the heat we’ve experienced. I understand that this happens in granulation with the runny stuff with the higher water content on top. The honey hasn’t started...

I thought this could be fun. Heres your starter for ten, from the good old World Economic Forum website.

I always am saddened to see any butterflies and moths that get trapped in my Waspbanes. This year I’ve made (with inspiration from Fred Karno) shrouds out of roofing felt, that I put on in the evening. It works well and I‘m looking to patent it then flog it to Karol🤗 (Apologies, Karol)

Hi Peeps, I have a poly nuc bait hive - two tier, upper tier frames of foundation and drawn comb, lower tier empty. I have a wasp nest in it about ten metres away from my hives. How would you deal with it, getting rid of the wasps but not contaminating the poly or the frames....? I need to deal...

Hi all, I found a batch of honey, jarred in August last year starting to “separate” in the jars - the very top of the honey being runny whilst the rest was soft set. I read up on it and found it is a way some honey will granulate. The water content rising and it can then cause fermentation. I...

I extracted two boxes of Spring honey yesterday and my OH complained at the unpleasant smell. It was clearly a high percentage of dandelion giving off the sweaty socks smell. Does this smell persist after jarring and if so does it put customers off? I understand it granulates quickly too - how...