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Hi all I've got excess honey I want to sell. I want to sell to neighbours and through online marketplace (Facebook?). There's also a local shop who has expressed an interest who would take 1LB jars. I'm considering all my options for bottling (to give me the widest possibilities): ie. 1Lb...

Hi all Whenever I move a colony from a nuc to a full-sized (National or national 14 x 12) hive, I dither. Here's how I usually start: I take the frames from the (usually 5-6 frame) nuc and I transfer to the centre of hive (cold way). Then I dither. Question: If there are uncapped stores...

Hi All We've been looking for a new house in West Wales. One's come up in a good area for general forage for bees, I think, and a place for a new apiary. However, I've noticed that about 200 - 300 metres away is another apiary owned by a bee farmer. He's always had about 10-12 hives there...

Hi all Old queen did a runner with half the hive on 29th May. I left the colony for 3 weeks + for the new queen to mate. The weather was patchy during this time. I opened the hive for a visual on 22nd June and saw that cells had been polished ready for something to lay?! Another inspection...

Hi all On inspection a couple of days ago it became clear that the queen had somehow squeezed through the QX and is merrily laying in both supers. In fact, it's a classic chimney brood - just like her mother! She is prolific. I decided to give her the space she needs and put the QX above the...

Hi all I have to move my hives on Thursday evening as part of a house move: 4 x national hives and 1 x 6 frame nuc I'm moving them 170 miles (so well past the 3 mile rule!) inside a van. All the hives are on open mesh floors. The weather is obviously on the cool side. All the hives and the...

Hi Can anyone recommend a good online resource or book which gives thorough information on forage for honeybees. Ie. names of plants, habitats, flowering period, location, soil type etc. Thanks

Hi all I'm finishing off the last of my harvest. I want to leave the bees with a super of their own honey so I'm (painstakingly) shuffling and removing the odd super of capped frames to extract and whittling down to one full super for the bees, then getting the apiguard on (taking into account...

Hi. I've just set up my wasp bane. The guide says that it needs to be downwind of the apiary so that any wasps are trapped before they get to the apiary. It's catching some wasps but the wasps actually in the apiary are thus far ignoring it. My concern with putting it in the apiary is that...

Hi, I'm Patrick and new to the forum