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It’s Italian! Probably about as much use as their QUEENS.😉

I used to work with bears many years ago and my customers seemed to like them. But I always worried about my honey crystallizing in them so that’s why I stopped. My honey is going cloudy already this year. Bears seem to be popular in the USA and Canada. I not sure if it’s the type of honey, the...

They could be heavily infested with varroa. They might not be worth saving so I would leave them alone.

I only harvested mid August and I did keep the supers from each apiary separate to start with. But because It would only have been in small batches I thought it’s not worth the hassle. Last year some of us here had heather honey in the same frame’s as our summer honey and I managed to extract a...

Some of us are, but we also have a Tesco and a Lidl selling far cheaper honey starting at 79p per 340g jar. I’m now expecting someone to pipe up with “but that’s not real honey”. So there is plenty of choice out there but a limited amount of local honey available. It was estimated we had 320,000...

I give far too much of my honey away and it’s getting to be more and more each year. It has to stop sometime!!! I sell some directly to friends and private customers who I’ve built up over the years. Some only want a couple of jars and at the other end of the scale I’ve one who takes 25 to 30...

I work with 2 labels and I hate doing it, but I’m pretty good at placing them squint!

Delivered honey this afternoon and the bottling took about an hour and a half after teatime. The bubbles were still rising when the picture was taken and this batch of honey contains 17% water 🙂

Thanks for the feedback. My partner says I have absolutely no perception whatsoever when it comes to coordinating colours. Luckily I didn’t choose a black and white label! As to what’s in the jars Dani it’s honey from three apiaries. Two in the town and one in a rural location. After a good...

Thanks Dani, my customers love them too and dare I say it “they are from Thornes”

ericbeaumont said “Avoid clichés such as black & yellow insects, hexagons and flowers, unless nectar of the latter constitute about 80% of the jar” OOPS!!!

If you do find him / her please tell us about your experience.

Sorry I can’t help you with the metal roofs. For anyone out there worried about the ratchets damaging their poly roofs, I slip a thin bit of plywood underneath the ratchets and it stops them digging in.

Hello Buffalo I’m always interested in beekeeping in other parts of the world. According to google your part of the USA has warm summers and very cold winters so a couple of questions for you. When you were managing 900 hives did you wrap them, store them in sheds or other to get them through...

I sent 3 jars of my honey to my brother in Ireland 2 years ago as a present in the post. He was hit with 25 Euros in charges before he could receive it. Something neither of us were aware of. This year I got my sister to take some over in her suitcase when visiting him and she had no problems at...

I was intending to remove feeders from 7 hives yesterday because I thought they would have had enough by now. But after hefting all them it was obvious they were needing more. So feed I had made up for nucs and hives’s at another apiary was diverted to them. I don’t like to skimp on their...

Thanks for that. I just heading off to work so I will watch it later.

These questions are for you Antipodes. 1 Are there many commercial beekeepers in Tasmania who work with predominantly AMM bees. 2 Are the AMM bees used for foraging for leatherwood. 3 Any idea what percentage of Tasmania's bees are AMM. Thanks

What size of hive are you overwintering her in, the apidea, a nuc or something else?