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    Hydro press

    Hi all, Does anyone have any experience with hydro presses as my normal press seems to just leave me with a lot of honey left in the scrapings/cappings? How good are they for heather honey? what sort of water pressure do you need? are they worth the price tags £700? Is there a cheaper version...
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    Honey left in frames

    Hi All I still have 2 supers of honey left in the frames from the start of August and due to work I haven't gotten time to extract it. Would it still be OK to do it and will I have to warm the frames to assist extraction? Is there anything else I should be looking out for? Thanks
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    Finding Queen with black light

    Hi all, Just a quick question. Has anyone ever used and UV pen for marking a queen so she can be found easier using a black light or would a black light just react with the other bees? Just wondering this the other day Cheers
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    Honey Press

    Hi All, Just a quick question do people use a filter bag in a honey press? I have a few frames from last year I didn’t get a chance to extract and they are heather and won’t spin but the press seems to be leaving a lot of honey behind but I’ve put it in a net bag. cheers
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    Transferring bees from keiler mating nuc

    Hi all, I hope everyone is keeping safe. Does anyone have an easy way of transferring bees from a keiler mating nuc to a national nuc/hive? I had a queen in a keiler nuc from last year which I thought was dead but found she was doing very well at the end of the year but I had no extra gear at...
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    Scented Candles

    Hi all, Im trying to make scented beeswax candles and using essential oils. I put approximately 1 teaspoon of essential oils into about 60ml of wax but i cant smell anything when its burning. Does anyone have any idea of how much to add? Or do i just keep adding untill i smell it? Cheers
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    Hand Cream/Lipbalm

    Hi All, I hope all are keeping well. I hope this is the correct section. I'm looking for the best all in one Lipbalm/hand cream recipe. (if its possible) I had a look at the sticky and most are slightly different (I think) Cheers
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    Late Queen rearing

    Just a quick question. What is the latest a decent queen can be reared? I had a quick search here and found people rearing in august. Cheers
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    Jarring question

    Hi all, I hope everyone is well. Has anyone used (or have any reason why not to) the little plastic valves for homebrewing buckets for jarring honey instead of a honey gate? If you attached a length of hose on to it, it would be easier to jar honey as you could just move the hose (assuming the...
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    Type of shook swarm

    Hi all, I hope everyone is good and keeping safe. Anyway I'm just wondering about a method of swarm control I heard about at a meeting but I didn't catch the full piece. From what I got is that you put an empty brood box on the bottom with new foundation or empty drawn frames. Then you shake...
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    Section honey

    Good day all, I hope everyone is keeping well in these times. Just a quick question I did a small few sections last year on hanging section frames and they turned out well. I'm just wondering can I convert a national super (poly) to hold sections so I don't have to buy a load of hanging section...
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    Crystallized honey

    Hi All, This question has probably been asked before but anyway. My last 2 crops of honey set in the jars within a week or so. Now my neighbor who lives about 200 m down the road has runny honey in his jars (I know it depends on the flower type etc) I’m just wondering am I jarring it wrong or...
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    Difference between 2 honey’s

    It’s probably a silly question but I’ll ask anyway, I have jarred honey which has crystallised but my neighbor who lives about 100 m away his honey is runny why is this? It’s probably to do with the flowers but the difference is quite a lot mine is set and yellow and his is runny and gold...
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    Queenless hive ??

    How’s it goin, I have one hive which has no worker brood and I can see one or 2 eggs literally the odd one or 2 eggs there is some drone brood and still drones. I also can’t find a queen but I never can. Now I have a weak nuc which has a non laying queen (I’ve seen it) in it should I join the...
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    Parts for extractor

    Does anyone know where I can get a gearwheel for a manual extractor (or a way of repairing it) The gear is a cylindrical type with a spring underneath it. Ive tried ebay but no luck. Cheers
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    Rearing hive

    Hi, Just one question I am thinking of rearing a few queens this year as last year I got 3 queenless hives an the year before I got one so i want to keep some queens just in case as I lost a hive last year due to being queenless. I can find a lot of info on grafting and various other methods...
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    What am I doing wrong?

    Hi All, This is the second year running that my bees haven't drawn out comb I the super. The brood box was full in around May and there was a super added. I've tried spraying sugar water on the wax leaving out the queen excluder but for some reason They won't go up I have 2 over wintered nucs...
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    winter hive wrap

    Hi Just a question does anyone have a cheap way of wrapping hives for winter I know most people don't do it but I had good experience with it last year (until i made mistake by opening it too early) but lagging jackets are fairly expensive and for 8 hives its not feasable to spend E25 per hive...
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    Adding a new queen

    Hi, I caught a swarm around the 30th June up until yesterday the bees had been slowly getting less and less and no eggs or larvae were on the frames I bought a mated queen and added a frame of brood/ eggs yesterday and checked today and no queen cells have been started but I have found a section...
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    What to do

    Hi all, Here's the issue due to work I was away and on checking my hives when I got back I found that one has swarmed (maybe more than once)and has opened queen cells there are no signs of any eggs and the other has 3 capped queen cells now the question is should I split the one with the queen...
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