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I've produced a set of instructions - based on my own experience - on how to convert an old fridge into a honey warming cabinet. They include instructions on what type of thermostat to buy and how to wire it up. I hope they're of use to others. How to make a honey warming cabinet out of an old...

I've just written a blog post on migrating from commercial to 14x12 frames. I'd welcome any constructive feedback members would care to give (either here on on the blog) on how I'm proposing to go about it. See Diary of a Nervous Beekeeper. In my case an otherwise potentially straight-forward...

I have just written a blog post about 'black' and 'yellow' varieties of Apis mellifera. I know that this is not a forum for selling things, but the blog is completely uncommercial (no ads, no spam). My reason for flagging it here is that I would welcome practical feedback from experienced...

I'm in Saffron Walden (Essex). Most beekeepers locally seem to have either dark coloured honey bees or very light chocolate brown ones. All the lighter coloured ones I've encountered so far (including my own) are very docile, but the darker ones seem far more productive. I'd like to find out...

I'd welcome some advice from more experienced beekeepers. My question is what happens when an already weak colony creates queen cells while the old queen is still present and laying? When the new queen hatches will the old queen leave naturally, taking up to a third of the workers with her...

I suspect there's a one-word answer to this question, but I'm a novice so please bear with me. When foundation is old and full of dead larvae and pollen and capped stores AND is a bit mouldy, is there any point in recycling the wax? Can it be used to make new foundation? And if so, is it a case...

I have three questions that combine inter-colony infection, bee housekeeping and social etiquette! I’ve been adding frames of brood from my main colony to a borrowed mini-nuc, in an effort to build up the latter. The last time I did this I chose to swap a full frame of brood and stores (from the...