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I am looking at buying a honey dryer, about 50-80kg. I see Abelo have a Lyson one that looks quite good. Has anyone got one? How to they compare to the Konigin and Swienty ones? Any others? What are your experiences of these? I've never had one before but have had a lot of high moisture content...

Has anyone used Abelo's hive tracking device or can you recommend another one? Are they any good? Obviously it would need to have a movement alert. (We have some bees on a site which is close to a road and visible. It was meant to be just for the osr but thinking of keeping the site on for longer.)

Just got BBKA News - in the q&a section, Gareth Morgan says he shook-swarms all his colonies in spring. Who else does this? Some people say they only do it to weak and sick colonies and others only strong ones. What are your views?

Anyone have any ideas about which commercial patties (pollen substitutes) are best? Our bees have plenty of stores so don't need feeding but they are short of pollen. I've been browsing the main sellers and some of the products on offer seem to be really low on protein or don't even tell you...

Anyone know where to get a decent price for good cappings wax? Other than trying to sell small bits on eBay, I mean. Thornes and co seem to not differentiate and will pay the same price for anything. The wax we were given from conversion this year was really dark and the stuff we took in was...

Has anyone tried clearing bubbles from soft set honey with an ultrasonic cleaner? Wondering if it's worth a try. Or any other ideas? Just bottled a batch yesterday and it was a bit too cold for it - a lot of them have a little bit of air in them from the bottling machine. Otherwise it's really...