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Hi all, Need to fill up hundreds of small 1oz jars as gifts. I did this last time using a jug and was painfully slow. The normal tap on a honey bucket is not really suitable for just small jars. Any suggestions please? Thanks. Sent from my D6603 using Tapatalk

Hi, Looking for a new Varoa Evaporator and seen the following on Ebay. Anyones used or have any ideas if its any good for Oxalic Evaporation...

Hi, Just a FYI. Having purchased a number of new Poly Nucs from Maisemore it became apparent the queen excluder entrance on the supplied entrance disk is too small. Does not allow workers through let alone the queen. Unfortunately Maisemore although acknowledging the problem refuse the...

Interesting read regarding Omani beekeeping http://bit.ly/1t4Xcxg

Hi, Just taken out a jar of home creamed honey from early on in the year. It seems to have separated and smells a bit fermented. Any ideas why this would happen. It appears to be 21% water content in a refractometer. Is better to chuck it out now and any idea how I can stop this happening...

Interesting documentary about wild honey collectors in Nepal. http://goo.gl/hQfzYh

Interesting piece from Jessica Chia investigating "the social and environmental impact of beekeeping in London" see - London-hivewire.com

Hi Over the last few winters I have always left in the reduced entrance block and further restricted the height of the block to stop mice. The bees seem better able to enter without loss of pollen and do not appear to have issues with throwing their dead out which I had previously when using...

Hi, My first bit of work with a microscope. Anyone here with a bit more experience that can help identify the pollen taken from London/Essex honey? :thanks:

While inspecting one of our hives - in sunny East London - we came across this bird in a tree. Seems a bit exotic for London. Any ideas what it is?

Hi, Discovered a DLQ in one of my hives on Friday 10th May. I have removed the queen. How long can this hive remain queenless before we start having issues? I have a few queen cells grafted recently which will be ready to distribute on Thursday 16th. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.

Hi, I have the JzBz blue plastic cups for larvae transfer. I also have the hair roller type queen protectors. These protectors however do not fit the jzbz cups. Any idea the correct protectors to buy or how I can make the protectors I have fit? Thanks in advance.

This must be the worse cut comb honey for sale I have ever seen. How they can justify selling it when its not even capped is beyond me. Any one able to beat this?

Hi, I have a couple of hives which are currently without queen due to AS. Checked today and have seen sealed queen cells which should have hatched a few days ago. The tip of the queen cells were quite a dark brown colour and not the light wax colour of rest of the cell. Does this signal the...

Hi, Have seen quite a bit of pink pollen coming into the hive the last few days. Never seen this colour before. Any idea what it might be Thanks.

Hi, I am going to try a bit of queen rearing this year and will at some stage need to move a frame of eggs between apiaries. The donor hive is some miles away from the hive I wish to use to raise the new queens. Any suggestions how best to move the frame of eggs? I was thinking wrapping in a...

Hi In the October edition of the Bbka news magazine there is mention of leaving a tray of apiguard in the hive over winter and to remove two weeks before adding the first super in spring. this is meant for those that do not wish to use Oxalic acid but have a mite issue. Has anyone tried this...