Antipodes
Queen Bee
What tiny amount of honey I have collected from my hives this year stinks sort of like the family dog. To give you an idea of the smell (and taste), it is particularly like the smell around the dogs weeping eyes or the smell the vacuum cleaner emits after using it for a month or so vacuuming up the dog hairs around the house. All my honey this year has suffered with it from various apiary sites up to 100k's apart and with different forage. You can actually smell it when the hive lid is lifted. The smell and taste stays in the honey ie. does not dissipate after a few months.
I have no brood disease apart from chalkbrood.
We have had the worst season here in living memory. There has been almost complete failure of the leatherwood harvest (one honey producer down from 280 tonnes last year to 20 tonnes this year). Been much warmer than usual and very very dry with huge parts of the state burnt.
Any ideas please?
I have no brood disease apart from chalkbrood.
We have had the worst season here in living memory. There has been almost complete failure of the leatherwood harvest (one honey producer down from 280 tonnes last year to 20 tonnes this year). Been much warmer than usual and very very dry with huge parts of the state burnt.
Any ideas please?