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Ive used comb honey in cakes. You have to melt the honey gently and then do an all in one method. I made a delicious one using yoghurt, blueberries and honey. It looked quite sloppy in the loaf tin I baked it in but the result was light and moist. Use self raising flour with a tsp of extra...

Rather like the sound of brave wife, our great big dobi X thought the bees were his friends, I would call him away but wouldn't have the courage to brush the bees off, fortunately even if they burrowed his fur they didn't sting, ground nesting wasps though completely different.

Mutilated queen - horrible practice, I suspect she has a great big blob of goo to mark her as well!

Our regional bee inspector advised us that placing a queen excluder on the floor to prevent the queen leaving can end up by killing her, apparently if the colony wants to leave they will try to push the queen through - consequence -horrible. Also will people please stop advocating killing...

I always clean my teeth with peppermint flavoured toothpaste, I suppose you could try sucking a peppermint too.

OK now I'm seriously wound up! Will make sure I take a phone with me during visits - is it this time of year that makes the stings so venomous. I do hope you get better soon, looks extremely uncomfortable and considering the pain and discomfort my husband suffered with face stings, you have my...

I'm interested to know how often you open them, ours were very agressive last year, coming at us even when we were nowhere near the hives. This year we have adopted far fewer inspections - only one this year, and even with bad weather, the same queens and OSR they are completely relaxed. Be...

Ours were doing it to tonight, hadn't thought about the moon, sitting low and greatly magnified. We are getting very close to Beltane too. But as ours regularly sat around on the porch last year, just shootin the breeze, we just expect them to do it. :coolgleamA:

Two part question. Does anyone have any information about ostracism, if so could it be the reason for the following: I was recently shown a partly drawn brood frame which came from a small colony that had made it through the winter and was now building up. On the frame were about 30 bees...

We tried a couple of bare frames last year, the result was wavy comb and different thickness, but we didn't mind. Doing pretty much the same as you with regard to leaving the honey, although as we did treat the bees with oxalic acid in winter we have marked the frames that were in at the time -...

I would like to buy a microscope, suitable for checking for nosema and also viewing pollen. I too don't want to spend a fortune but could do with some advice please! Make, model, where to buy and approximate cost, and most especially why your recommendation. Many thanks.

RAB hope you read this, be very interested to know what you use instead of oxalic. Hated using it and so would much prefer an alternative. Just been to see a friend who lives in the local town and has her hive in quite a small garden with good neighbours on either side both of whom were...

:rant: I am absolutely convinced that my way, which is the WBC is right, but am interested in the top bar. I am also completely convinced that my way of keeping bees is better than everyone elses. BUT I am equally convinced that I need to listen and do so with an open mind and then think about...

If I have learnt one important thing, it is that we simply understand zip, and until we do, we shouldn't interfere. And I know I am guilty, I doubt if our 3colonies would have chosen to sit side by side if allowed to or subject themselves to dangerous chemicals. But putting my bee suit on...

We have one hive that attacks, but only when they have been opened, they calm down after about 3 days. They would follow en masse and take a good 20 minutes to finally leave us alone. Even their winter oxalic acid treatment was full launch. We haven't opened them yet this year and are...

creosote stinks, my neighbours splatter all over their sheds in the summer, I also discovered this morning they had shot through my greenhouse with an air rifle, strange lot husband nice, wife enormous, sort of OK her lover - grossly ugly and awful and they all live together - the lover in one...

Don't confuse pussy willow (salix caprea) with weeping willow, keep cuttings moist but don't drown them in water. Anyone in East Sussex - near Lewes who wants to plant willow, we have 3 or 4 young self seeded saplings that are surplus to our requirements and as the trees take a couple of years...

I agree with above. Our neighbours planted phacelia for that reason a couple of years ago and our bees benefitted. Technically it should be ploughed in before it flowers for the best soil improvement. By itself phacelia makes a clear almost mauve tinted liquid honey, some love, some think...

She's not rolling them strong enough:sifone:

Pretty sure ours our Salix Caprea that found their way in to the garden, max time for growing 5 years and only one quite big - obviously the oldest, and first year with good supply of buds. There are lots of willows, for weaving, burning or just letting ratty and friends doze in their shade, I...