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How do. I had a strong very late balsam flow this year unfortunately the bees haven't managed to dry it down very well, I have around 100lbs of honey that's coming out in the 18 -->19% h2o range. I have been doing a bit of googling on honey fermentation and it all seems a bit vague with no hard...

How do folks. This year i'm thinking about running some ' beekeeping experience days' for non beeks at one of my apiaries . It will probably just be small groups of around 5 people for roughly 3 hours with a brief introduction to beekeeping followed by a look inside a hive then maybe some honey...

Did a Demaree on one of mine on 10th of April, they built a couple of supercedure cells and the queen below is knocking on a bit so I gave them a seperate entrance and let them raise a new Q with the intention of re-uniting and bumping off the old Q when the new Q was laying. Checked them on...

Dandelions,hawthorn, and sycamore all coming to and end here now and can't think on anything much available for them for the next few weeks until the bramble come out (lots of flower buds on it already) Is the June gap a victim of a warming planet?

I was wondering if anyone knows a rough figure for what proportion of bees are out foraging at any one time during early afternoon in good weather during a good flow? I had a look at mine today when the bees were working flat out and the supers although full of nectar and uncapped honey were...

I have 4 frame nuc with a newly mated queen that started laying about 3 weeks ago. The queen is nice and big and is laying beautifully with a lovely brood pattern. I had a quick look inside yesterday and they had built 2 supercedure cells that were nearly capped. They had started building them...

Howdy along with beekeeping another of my loves is the weather and it's looking like we're heading for a VERY cold spell of weather indeed from Monday onwards lasting for possibly a couple of weeks. With winds coming all the way from north of the pole,strong winds and harsh frosts look likely...

Howdy I'm pretty much out of my own honey already and am looking to buy some in 30lb (or similar) buckets for jarring myself. Has to be unpasteurised and English. Please PM me. greg

I got some bee quick for a trap out this year that didn't happen due to the lockdown.I am thinking of using it to clear my supers and was wondering if anyone has tried it? Does it work well? Any tips?

Finally figured out a way to post pictures on here so here's some I got a specialist macro photographer to take of my bees the detail is incredible..enjoy https://www.facebook.com/gregsbusybees/photos/a.882932461724408/1079781325372853/?type=3&theater...

Howdy I have quite a lot of mites in my colonies at the moment and want to treat them now so they can be in good shape for the Balsam later in the year. I usually vape my bees but with all the brood at the moment and supers on the hive I have got some MAQS and plan to treat this week.I'm...

I'm a keen follower of the weather and it looks like a prolonged (possibly a few weeks)and very cold spell of weather is on the way,with winds coming from the east which hasn't happened for a good few years. One of mine was hefting light last week so i think i'll have a quick swap around of...

Hi folks,I am thinking of doing a quick video for my facebook page, I haven't done one yet this year so thought it would be cool to do something along the lines of 'sorry i'ts been a while since the last vid in this time i've grown a beard' then turning the camera to reveal a beard of bees lol...

My bees have been pretty much working the Laurel exclusively for the last 3 weeks and have filled a good few supers with it . It finished flowering about 2 weeks ago and since then they have been working the nectarines on the underside of the leaves.I'm a bit worried this honey might be a bit...

Hi folks,I have 4 strong hives on brood 1/2 national i reckon they will be thinking about swarming late April/early May and want to increase to 8 by the end of the year ideally,but i don't want to compromise too much on my honey yield if possible. Are there any clever techniques available to...

I remember in my early beekeeping days seeing braula on a regular basis,but since the varroa arrived never see them anymore.I presume varroacides also kill braula? I kind of miss them :nopity:

Struggling to get all my pics uploaded to here,but here's one i got done by Matt last week,got lots more cool ones on my fb page and will try to get them on here if i ever manage to enter the digital age!

One of my hives is behaving very strangely,for the last 3 inspections (each 8 days apart) there have been 7 to 10 sealed queen cells,they look like emergency cells,but are all constructed from drone brood :confused: I have broken them all down on each occasion and a lot of the cells have...