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I have never really needed to buy honey labels before, I have previously designed my own and printed them off. which can be a bit fiddly. However so far this season I have had a bumper crop and will probably go down the road of purchasing my lables. Can anyone recommend a label printing company...

I checked one of my colonies for the first time this year three weeks ago, I clearly spotted the marked Q, she was laying strong, lots of BIAS despite her being over three years old. I also noticed what I would consider to be a single open superceedure QC (no sign of the lid cap) on a centre...

Discovered this growing under one of my hives a couple of days ago but am only in a position to deal with it today, consequently it has grown ! It was originally under the hive shown in the background. Never had to do this before, thought it through and this is my plan of action :- Yesterday...

Is it possible to use the same test frame twice in two separate hives ? I have four colonies at my out apiary, two are thriving and the other two, well, I have not seen any eggs for four weeks and there is no sealed brood left, all cells are clear in both of these colonies, so, without going...

Looks like a large swarm has arrived in to my National size bait hive, started about 2.30 pm and is still arriving at 19.30 pm. (The bees were bums up fanning around the entrance from early on) Would it be prudent to add a Queen excluder later on or is it not necessary ? Thanks.

I have a colony at my out apiary that is doing fine, queen laying well, lots brood, eggs, play cups (no queen cells) etc, in fact hive was bursting, so decided to Snelgrove this hive as a swarm prevention, never tried it before, so am quite excited to see how it goes ! I started this on on the...

Went to my out apiary on my friends farm earlier today, had a wonder and came across the plant in the photo, can anyone ID it please, also the plant in the background with all the fuzzy buds/flowers. Many Thanks.

Just ordered some Thymol crystals to make up a "mix" to add to a syrup feed. I have looked at a couple of recipeies, it states for the small "mix" I am going to make up, I only need to add one teaspoon of lecithin. As I understand it, the lecithin is added as an imulsifier, so, as I will only...

There must be limited easily accessible areas in the UK where you can site your hives and have your bee's forage naturally on crops and flowers that have NOT been either sprayed with some sort of chemical or having fertiliser added to the soil to help them grow, bearing this in mine, is it...

I have approximately 70lb of honey that has been standing in a gate valved storage bucket for ten days. When I extracted it, it went through the "standard" stainless steel double mesh strainer/filter. I just wondered what acceptable levels of filtration subscribers would recommend for general...

I have a colony, with a 2018 Queen, she is laying well with brood and eggs in all stages and plenty of room for her to continue laying, she is moving around the frames well, no signs of damage. The colony has two supers on, both have some capped frames and others have lots of nectar in. On...

I have three colonies each with 2 2 and 3 supers on, all are just about full and are a combination of sealed, semi sealed and unsealed. I want to add a new super to each, coloney, I do have enough frames of fresh foundation to fill all three new supers, however I also have twelve frames of...

Came across this site on YouTube, I found the videos both extremely informative very well presented, well worth watching, hope you enjoy them as much as I have ! https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhUDH9LkxRdOYAjY7SeXiYCA2btQSUTqA

Hi, has anyone bought one of these refractometers and do you have any feedback on it apart from the five reviews already submitted on the site ? Thanks...

Saw something similar to this wasp trap on the Internet so thought I would make one and give it a try, has anyone else used something similar ? I suppose one thing is, you aren't actually attracting the wasps with some sort of bait !

After performing an artificial swarm, is it ok to merge a Q minus colony with the colony containing the QC's (using the newspaper method) if so how long should I wait ? I appreciate I could also add some cells to the Q minus colony but I don't particularly need further increase in colonies...

Hi, Does anyone use Propolis in their oral hygiene ? If so, do you purchase it a from a registered supplier and in what form ? Can propolis be used from our own hives ? how would it be processed to be used for oral health ? Would appreciate any feedback on this query. Thanks.

Wondered if this would work. Say you had a weak hive or a nuc that was being heavily robbed. Could you, make up a new entrance incorperating a Portal bee escape facing inwards, fit it last thing of an evening, next day capturing the robber bees to help build the numbers up, close the hive/nuc...