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I have crap-filled honey from my old cappings that I want to give back to the bees and want to put it in a rapid feeder, should I put it in neat or dilute it with water so it flows in the feeder better?

Let's say, just for arguments sake, I was to remove the queen excluder from a 14 x 12 brood box and let the queen wander wherever she wanted in a stack of, say, three supers. Where would she be likely to establish her brood nest? Top, bottom or middle? The reason I'm asking is I had a thought...

I sell my 1lb jars of honey for £6, what would be a reasonable ask if I sold, say, 24 jars to the local shop, assuming they also sold it for about six pounds?

Bottled up my first super of honey and it has a noticeable minty taste, any idea what plants it could have come from? Can't be mint they don't flower until now(ish).

20th May, happy World Bee Day. When I first heard it I thought someone had said "whirl bidet", I imagined it was some sort of toilet-based instruction :)

I inspected my bees two weeks ago and while the colonies could have been bigger they were doing ok. Today, I noticed a few dead bees outside one of the hives so, since the weather is much improved today, I decided to have a look. One of the colonies is still quite small but the other one is a...

I have brood boxes, supers, crown boards, queen excluders, etc. that are not in use at the moment and I want to clean it all up. Is there one product/method that will rid me of comb, propolis and general bee detritus all in one go?

I'm thinking I'm going to have a very bad wasp problem come the Autumn. Today, they were nosing around the apiary and my laurel trees have more wasps on them this year than I have ever seen before. Anyone else noticed an extra increase in the wasp population this Spring?

I thought about doing a Bailey comb change today as most of the frames in one hive were grim to say the least, but couldn't bring myself to wipe out all the brood that was developing on three of the frames so a complete change was not done. I left three slightly dodgy, but laid-in, frames in...

Even though I have been keeping bees for six years I am obliged to put this in the beginners section because I feel like a beginner again! I have (had) four hives. Number 1 I could tell was not in good condition so I started there. Opened it up, lot of dead bees, about two or three hundred bees...

My wife and I were sat in the garden and she had an almost empty cup of coffee on the table in front of us. A bee arrived. It looked so much like a honey bee but was ever so, ever so slightly smaller. It proceeded to walk around the rim of the cup laying eggs as it went until it flew away. It...

Since it was warm yesterday I decided it would be a good day to take out the nadirs from all my four colonies. Two of the colonies were fine, they had nice and clean, but empty, comb in the nadirs and there were almost no dead bees on the hive floors. The other two had hundreds and hundreds of...

If I moved to a country on the equator and took my bees with me, what would they do? Let's assume that the area I live in has ample water and flowering plants of some description all year round so they were never short of forage, would they continue to build up stores for a winter that will...

Finally a win at Twickenham after so many years -- and no one there to see it.

Wasp flamethrower

They are the suits the Americans have to use before they tackle the Asian Giant Hornet.

Some of my hives are too light for the winter so I have put food on one of them (I only have one giant feeder so they have to take turns), unfortunately they don't seem to want to take the food. It's been quite warm today and the bees have been out foraging for, well, nothing I suppose, so I...

I have read several threads on here about not using a queen excluder but have been unable to ascertain exactly what happens if no QE is used and no moving of the supers takes place. Let's imagine that I have a hive that I do not touch all season, apart from adding supers on top of the last one...

Every year about this time, I take out the apivar strips then move the last super underneath the brood box for the winter -- the bees really don't like me doing that. Silly thing is is that the supers really don't have much in them this year so I'm not sure why I bothered, just habit I suppose...

After getting stung on my head again when nowhere near the bees and not even in their line of sight I think I want my garden back. I dont want an out-apiary and I'm getting a bit fed up of keeping them anyway. I have four colonies plus another empty hive, at least ten supers, two nuc boxes and...