What have you done in the honey room?

[Garry R]

I was wondering about honeydew as the bees are filling the comb in next to no time and in conversation at our hive meeting the talk was all about really thick honey barely able to run down the sides of the extractor. Not sure whether hawthorn is like this but honeydew seems a possibility. The gate into the field is really sticky below the trees so maybe it is that ........................ Maybe have to warm it a bit or cut it out with a warm up and filter.

 

[enrico]

I was wondering about honeydew as the bees are filling the comb in next to no time and in conversation at our hive meeting the talk was all about really thick honey barely able to run down the sides of the extractor. Not sure whether hawthorn is like this but honeydew seems a possibility. The gate into the field is really sticky below the trees so maybe it is that ........................ Maybe have to warm it a bit or cut it out with a warm up and filter.

I have never known honeydew like it. It is covering our patio slabs from the cherry tree above it. In the evening it is alive with bumblebees my bees are all over the hornbeam and field maple which are so sticky to touch. I am sure the first rain will wash it all off but until that arrives it seems to be free food for all! Yuc!

 

[JamezF]

The sycamores around us are buzzing with bees and the leaves are glossy with it.

James

 

[Erichalfbee]

My spring honey is hawthorn and is like treacle

 

[Newbeeneil]

Was transporting buckets from the extraction room to home on Friday and one of the buckets fell over in the back of the van causing the lid to come off. I found it about an hour later by which time I had an inch deep puddle of honey below the front seats!
Cleaned it up best as we could but it was still seeping through the bulkhead this morning.

 

[ericbeaumont]

Struggled to unlock the kitchen door in the farmyard and thought a fly-by-night had tried to force it.

Turned out to be clogged with the nest of a mason bee; material was like a mix of propolis and mud.

Must be the season for it: saw another last week in a kitchen wall.

 

[The Poot]

Was transporting buckets from the extraction room to home on Friday and one of the buckets fell over in the back of the van causing the lid to come off. I found it about an hour later by which time I had an inch deep puddle of honey below the front seats!
Cleaned it up best as we could but it was still seeping through the bulkhead this morning.

Drive into a field and leave the windows and doors open…….?

 

[Newbeeneil]

Drive into a field and leave the windows and doors open…….?

I am wondering what sort of reception I will get next time I go to my apiaries!

 

[enrico]

Was transporting buckets from the extraction room to home on Friday and one of the buckets fell over in the back of the van causing the lid to come off. I found it about an hour later by which time I had an inch deep puddle of honey below the front seats!
Cleaned it up best as we could but it was still seeping through the bulkhead this morning.

Park it near the hives with the windows open for a few weeks
Oh! I see someone else put that, I really must read to the end of the thread

 

[pargyle]

Was transporting buckets from the extraction room to home on Friday and one of the buckets fell over in the back of the van causing the lid to come off. I found it about an hour later by which time I had an inch deep puddle of honey below the front seats!
Cleaned it up best as we could but it was still seeping through the bulkhead this morning.

OMG.... that is your worst nightmare ! I once had a 4 pint bottle of milk flood the rear footwell of a previous car ... that was bad enough.. an inch of honey I cannot begin to imagine!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Threads like this always remind me of this one
https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/extraction-disaster.25971/

 

[RJC]

I have never known honeydew like it. It is covering our patio slabs from the cherry tree above it. In the evening it is alive with bumblebees my bees are all over the hornbeam and field maple which are so sticky to touch. I am sure the first rain will wash it all off but until that arrives it seems to be free food for all! Yuc!

Do bees feed on the sticky coating on the leaves, or do they 'milk' aphids like ants do?

 

[blackcloud]

The swearing increased in direct proportion to the increasing stickiness.
Choosing the hottest and most humid day so far to have all doors and windows shut was a masterstroke.
Swmbo wisely went shopping.
I've got to repeat all this in August as well.

 

[Erichalfbee]

bees feed on the sticky coating

 

[The Poot]

Jarred up 56 lbs of honey from three supers.
Happy with that

 

[Curly green finger's]

Extracting now after charging some nucs up and releasing virgins in some others and also checking a few others .
I have some honey dew honey I think it’s dark and like treacle and not really that nice to taste.??

 

[enrico]

Extracting now after charging some nucs up and releasing virgins in some others and also checking a few others .
I have some honey dew honey I think it’s dark and like treacle and not really that nice to taste.??

Oh no! Got a feeling I might have some too

 

[Curly green finger's]

Oh no! Got a feeling I might have some too

Excuse the wax
also had enough now already.

 

[Susan1]

I'm a hobby keeper. My honey room is my kitchen. I have abandoned all things bee (apart from here) to retain my sanity and get on with real life.....
Service will be resumed in August, likely

Yep same here. Cling film is your friend when extracting in the kitchen.

 

[Garry R]

was the car a Wolsley Hornet?

Was transporting buckets from the extraction room to home on Friday and one of the buckets fell over in the back of the van causing the lid to come off. I found it about an hour later by which time I had an inch deep puddle of honey below the front seats!
Cleaned it up best as we could but it was still seeping through the bulkhead this morning.