Are your bees making honey?

[aberreef]

Thats a buggar. Did it happen in these strong winds?

Strong winds sloping site and shoddy workmanship My home made stand collapsed down the slight slope, no doubt aided by a strong tail wind. Lesson learned though

 

[RoseCottage]

We went through the colonies and removed most remaining honey. It appears that of the 6 hives 4 are requeening at the moment. 1 due to a split, 1 intentional, and 2 after swarming.
This has had the impact that the colonies are full of honey in the BB and have been stashing as much as possible away for a rainy day (so plenty to choose of these then).

However, Of the frames we spun out last some of them already had started to granulate. We then had a challenge as the extractor filled up with probably 50lbs of honey and when we tried to filter it off the sieves clogged up. We have had to leave things for 3 days (circumstances) and now the content of the extractor is solid.

Hmmm. What to do. I can only think of getting the old chicken heat lamp out and hanging it overnight half way down the drum with a low wattage bulb.
Anyone dealt with a situation like this before? I do have a warming cabinet but the extractor drum is too big to fit in it. What will happen to the wax cappings on the surface of the honey?

All the best,
Sam

 

[rae]

220 lb off 6 hives. A mixture of OSR and Hawthorne. Considering that a month ago we had fondant on, with no supers, this is pretty impressive work by the bees. Inspections in May were mostly "supering" exercises.

 

[Beezy]

No honey here so far, but I only have 1 colony which has caused me a few issues with their determination to swarm over the past few weeks. Don't really mind though: I would happily trade no honey this summer for a non problematic hive as I'm heavily pregnant and would like a quiet month!

 

[Dishmop]

A few weeks ago in the brief summer, my obs hive managed to cap about a quarter of two frames............

In the last few days they've extracted it and sold it.

 

[YorkshireBees]

A few weeks ago in the brief summer, my obs hive managed to cap about a quarter of two frames............

In the last few days they've extracted it and sold it.