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Bees seem to think it's Spring.

Watched the entrances, lots of ivy coming in, still plenty of wasps knocking around and have been a bit of a problem going by the amount of bee parts near the entrances. A couple had minimal pollen coming in and drones flying so not looking good for those,will find out in the spring.

Watched a bit of this today.

FINALLY finished extracting after 4 weeks, 62 supers of honey and 5 supers of comb. Now onto the mountain of cappings :mad: . I have a Thornes 9 frame electric extractor which has performed admirably but it could be time for an upgrade next year.

it was about 4 days before the delivery arrived, money is now back in my account.

2 of the 4 poly nucs i ordered got refunded everything else was there.

Clearer boards on 5 more today, you know it's been a good season when the queen excluders all look like this:

Shame they made good equipment ,on the plus side I just picked up a load of kit 1/2 price.

Great thanks!

Howdy I have around 200 blocks of cut comb already done with another couple of hundred left to take off. They're in the Thornes crystal containers they have all come out really nice this year. They are available at £7 each. I'm 5 miles from Wigan centre. Message my facebook page if interested...

I had some wet honey last year at 21% I extracted it and ran it slowly through a double strainer 3 times with the dry emerging air from a dehumidifier blowing under the strainer. The honey went down to 17%

It's pretty pale i'd give it 2/10 on the colour scale (0=water 10 = treacle)

Prepped a few more supers for removal, backbreaking work as everything is completely full to the brim.Never seen so much brace comb,i'm sure if I had some spare supers I could have had another 2 supers per hive filled-bonkers! Balsam is yeilding superbly for me this year.

Extracted 9 supers of these bad boys, 52 to go!

80% balsam the other 20% a mix of thistle,rosebay and bramble.

Had to take 30 frames of cut comb off so I could get the empty frames back on. Everything is full to the brim and bees are struggling to offload.

Interesting one today, took 6 supers off some close to home bringing them back by wheelbarrow. There were a few stragglers in the supers so I blew them all out in the back garden before bringing the supers inside. An hour later I was half way back returning the wheelbarrow to the farm when I...

Had a quick peep in the supers,weather is poor but the bees don't seem to mind atall,supers filling up very nicely!

Not seen a single worker wasp so far this year! I think the poor weather at the beginning of June has wiped out most of the nests,on a side note could be good news in the battle againt the Asian hornets. Anyone else noticed this?

Inspected 15 at the home apiary today,perfect weather and nectar pouring in. Was expecting a pretty easy day as all the colonies here have now been split so was mainly just checking for mated queens and progress in the supers. I was wrong 3 of my splits with newly mated queens were swarming ...