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This is my second honey harvest so still pretty new at it but my honey is cloudy this year, is it ok to sell? Last year it was clear The process last year was to coarse strain out of extractor into buckets, then fine strain through muslin into settling tank then jarred. I didn't have a warming...

Two of my hives swarmed at the end of May (24th). Due to the bad weather they took forever for the Queens to mate, finally on 1st July there were some eggs and brood. Now there are charged queen cells (4 on 1 frame in one hive and 2 on one frame in the other) and still some eggs. I didn't go...

Question is the title.. My bees have propolised the lugs of the frames to the poly making them really hard to prise off without jarring frames or damaging the poly with my hive tool. So I was wondering if there should be a frame runner - there wasn't one supplied? Its one of the ******/Maisemore...

I'm a fairly new beekeeper (started in 2010). However my original queen and all of her daughters (3) have two traits which I dont like: following and swarminess, one of the daughters is also particularly fiesty and VERY followy. How do I get rid of these traits? After getting to grips with this...

My question is how do I know if the queen is there? There is a long story involved in collecting this MASSIVE swarm which was on a very high branch. I will share the complete story if necessary but its a lot of typing. Anyway, some of the bees went into the box and sheet the rest fell into...

At the start of the season I had 4 hives. 1 had a 2010 queen in it and the others were all 2011 queens. At an inspection mid May hives 3 and 4 had swarmed, they didn't have many bees left and previously were very strong double brooded colonies, also they'd taken honey with them. So, went...

Hi all, last year was my first (small) honey crop and I found the extraction process a bit of a nuisance. Basically I extracted it using a lovely motorised radial extractor into buckets which was fine. Next step was filtering it out of the buckets through a strainer into a settling tank and...

Hi all, I'm posting yet another question about hoffman frames as I cant find the answer I'm looking for on here elsewhere. Anyway... I have bought some Hoffman converter clips from Th**nes for use in the brood box in my National Hives. I also bought some Dummy boards from Th**nes with the idea...