Heather Apiary - How is Heather Honey Produced - Heather Honey Combs

Heather Apiary - How is Heather Honey Produced - Heather Honey Combs

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[Chungsta]

I didn’t mean to sound rude….. fancy honey is what my misses calls honey that has cut comb in it… and that I has stuck with me..!👍

[jesshowe]

Great one as usual Quality. I've been monitoring one of my hives I put the Apivar strips in last week of August and I've been checking the tray weekly the weird thing is tray is full of the varroa every week and now the strips have been in 7-weeks and the Verroa is still falling the only difference now is a lot of the Verroa is alive. There can't have been that much Verroa in the Hive in August the apary is near the river and they're working Himalayan balsam I know they're beekeepers in the area that don't treat their Verroa and a lot of their hives die the balsam flower is perfect for Verroa to get off one bee and get on another I think all this Verroa is coming from the balsam. Another strange thing I gave a nuc a Virgin Queen August bank holiday and we have had a fantastic September heatwave the Queen has not laid an egg yet and is still flying on her mating flights saw her go out a few times yesterday still plenty drones in the Hives and when it is sunny there is lots of drones going out of The Hives which is also unusual at this time of the year. The Queen is not mated in over 6 weeks so she will probably be no good strange to see a queen still flying after 6 weeks.

[originalwoolydragon]

Do you check that the queen is in the bottom box before you move the queen excluder down?

[arwyndavies]

How do you prepare your heather bees for winter. My bees don't winter well on heather honey, they tend to get dysentery.

[sambrian]

Great video. Why does heather produce the different consistency in the honey? Do any other plants?

[tommydonohoe]

Hey. When was this video taken? Curious as to when the heather flow is on

[Chungsta]

Great video…wow..!
How do you go about processing the national deep honey..? Do you produce the fancy honey with them and cut the comb and place it in jars…
Very knowledgeable with the 14/12 and the national deep to rear and then turn the national into a super…. I will definitely try that on one of my hives next season…👍
Knowing my luck I’ll trap the queen upstairs hahaha.

[joseluisgonzalez-efnb]

Hello, good morning, greetings from Europe. Spain ..I introduce myself my name is José Luis González Hernández Nicaraguan beekeeper, the arrival to your page is to ask you a question. Do you have a job opportunity in your company for the next campaign