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I have looked on several sites to try to find the definitive guide or pronouncement on the number of calories in honey. I hope to replace a glucose drink given before an operation with a honey and lemon drink but need to calculate the number of calories in 100ml. There are so many different...

Hoping for a little advice. The comb I packed is setting or has already set. If I warm the packs in a water bath will it release chemicals into the honey?

Has anyone read the the article on Bee Houses in The BBKA News. Anyone have a Bee House. What thoughts do others have, I have been thinking of making some sort of shelter. I looked at making a CDB, type, cover for the winter for my two hives but precision joinery seems to be, not my forte.

Where do you Harvest process and sell your honey? My bees are in the garden 2 hives one good colony and one dodgy one this year. I process in my kitchen. I sell by word of mouth and at the door by putting a board out, on the grass verge, that I designed and produced myself. My honey is in 12 0z...

I use a Thorns modified template and charge £4.95 for 345gm in a hexagonal jar. Comb will be the same price in a clear 80z pack. Sorry I don't know offhand what that is in gm, though obviously I will have to print the correct weight in gm. when it is ready. Not sure what I will do about the...

No not a mis-spelling. While I have been extracting and Jarring my ill gotten gains I have locked the conservatory(glorified porch) door. I put the drippy frames upside down over a tray in the conservatory and also the wax cappings in the strainer for them to benefit from the extra heat until I...

Well I managed to get out that almost impossible to reach nut but how on earth do I get that top bar out. It's driving me round the bend!

I got five stings when trying to inspect my no 1 hive yesterday so I closed up without getting to the brood box.I was shaking before i got back to the house and took the antihistamines. I suspect that the hive is Queenless or they are replacing her. There are six supers on the hive. The bees...

Just had word that my ordered mated queen is ready and now I have brood in both hives from new queens. Last years new queen mated with the Fiesty Sheffield Mafia and did produce Fiesty offspring but the colony was dwindling and I put in bees and queen cells from the original colony. I am...

I am a gardener by profession and inclination. Though I cannot claim to be organic in practice I try to be the least harmful to wildlife as gardening will allow. With this in mind I plant what seem to be bee friendly plants as much as possible. I have read regularly articles on planting for...

Mmmm. :confused: On the subject of multiple user names. I recently re registered under the name of Greenhill Girl as it had been some time since I had been on the forum had forgotten my password and could not find a way to be reminded. A few weeks after posting as Greenhill Girl I found myself...

When I inspected the Corex board the last two inspections I found wax moth larvae and washed it off away from the hive. Today there was nothing but dropped pollen and a little wax with a tiny ringed snail at the side. Aaah must have got lost. The lettuce and turnips are at the outside of the...

My hive in which I have not been able to find a queen now has a full frame side of drone. The frame is foundation-less and the bees have drawn large cells both sides only one side has drone. I know one way of trying to control varroa is to supply large cell foundation in the hope that the bees...

I am not sure if my queen made it back from her jaunt with the boys and has not got into a good laying pattern yet, due to the girls filling every available bit of comb with nectar and pollen or if I have a laying worker. ? How long do you think I should leave things to see if they improve...

Does anyone know anything/ have experience of these. what exactly is it please.

Following on from yesterday's post. Today I went to sit down for a rest in the garden. Unfortunately a shrub in front of the beehive had grown and obscured my usual view, so I decided to stand close by and watch the activity. I knew water was going in as I had seen the girls at a nearby watering...

Ideas Please! As I inspected my girls I saw a queen with her head free of the cell attended or was it attacked by workers. I watched for about thirty seconds. The workers did not seem to be helping her out of the cell but keeping her in. I knocked off the remaining queen cell thinking they may...

:sos: Yesterday after doing my inspection I found there was a cluster of bees under hive no 1.(read my what I did in the apiary today post for more detail.) as I had transferred queen and brood frame to a new hive I wonder if these bees are return flyers who have got confused or a cast from...

I bought some equipment to make up a new hive in a famous manufacturers sale, no names no pack drill, but the castellation strips are too long to fit the inner walls of the hive without either chiseling out or cutting the metal. Has any one else had this problem and how was it resolved. Baring...