What material is that mortar and pestle?

Hi Stuart, great video as usual. I had a query regarding the process you’re following when compared against the instructions for api-bioxal. You say you do 3 treatments a week apart (perfectly understand the logic behind that) but doesn’t app-bioxal say you can only do 2 trickle treatments per year (winter and/or spring/summer). Do you tend to see any impact on colony size by doing 3 treatments 7 days apart? Again the SPC suggest high bee mortality rates were found in colonies treated 3 times and were weaker going into winter.

Thankyou so much for these helpful tips of making creamed honey👍 greetings from Papua New Guinea.

Worth a mention on types of bait used for queens and then for workers

Thank you very much!

Olha amigo crie africanas para não está contaminado o mel

Best wishes for your improving health and a great beekeeping season 2025

So good to know that you are returning to good health and soon. Bentley Jones Jamaica

Be positive best wishes for2025

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Thank you for sharing and caring.

Wish you health..

Long live bees abroad long live niki

Can i ask are the 12x14 frames or langstroth?

I thought you could vape multiple times but dribble only once. ?

Much more convenient than loading a syringe over and over.

At the end you said you would combine this now queenless nuc with another that was queen right as it was late season, to get them through together. What format did you combine them in… a double brood nuc or did you move both nuc colonies into a full hive or soem other way ? Also, what was the timeline for combining…. As the queenless colony with brood would presumably start producing emergency cells did you wait eight days and remove them before combining, or can you combine them using the newspaper method immediately? Thanks. Good video . PS seen a couple of videos now for this and they all seem to add the queen first and attendants after, but warn about the risk of the queen sneaking out when you add the attendants. Is there a reason you dont add the attendants first and add the queen last to reduce the risk of this ?

At the end you said you would combine this now queenless nuc with another that was queen right as it was late season, to get them through together. What format did you combine them in… a double brood nuc or did you move both nuc colonies into a full hive or soem other way ? Also, what was the timeline for combining…. As the queenless colony with brood would presumably start producing emergency cells did you wait eight days and remove them before combining, or can you combine them using the newspaper method immediately? Thanks. Good video

Hi quick question, the last way you did it, you gave them lots of space in the eek. Would they not start building that out? Or is their main focus just eating in winter? I've got one super on still and I want to give them feed. I've removed the crown board. Feel like I've created a problem though as they will all move into the super.

You need to be careful when using the Trickle 2 bottle that you hold it the right way round. The instructions that I have say to hold it with the 5ml chamber closest to your wrist when trickling. Otherwise the liquid can flow from the main reservoir into the 5ml chamber as you squeeze the bottle. I think that I overdosed the first couple of seams that I treated by getting this wrong.

You need a flexible rubber spatula Don't Leave Any Seed Honey IN THAT PAIL YOUR wasting It lol Just joking This is exactly how it's Done

Very interesting video.Thanks very much.But I wish to know the distance between the wires of the queen excluder. 15:27 15:28

Thanks!

Helpful video😊

At what stage would you place fondant under the top cover directly on too of frames. And would you remove all the plastic bag or just increase the hole size.

I enjoy your Podcast and learn from them. As I grow older, now aged 83, I have tried and failed to downsize. I too am a proponent of setting goals, so year after year, I would set a goal of having 20 hives, and year after year I would have between 30 and 40 hives. The increase was due largely to splitting to mitigate swarming. I also caught my own swarms. I found that I could not get reliably below 25 to 30 hives. So, I made a new plan and made a difficult decision to give up one of my apiaries and the resident bees. I hope you have better success at downsizing and have a speedy recovery.

All the best Stewart for your hospital procedure. Fingers crossed you will sail through it and be up and about in no time Best wishes

Hello and thank you for this video! I am interested in Malpighamoeba and I'd like to talk it with you in more details over email. Can you give me an email so that I can be in contact with you?

Can I use a blender for grinding the crystallized honey?

Try that in gloves! You need a magnet on a stick to hold the drawing pins...

I am beekeeper i have 11 colonies . And i want to expand it to 100 year in the coming year or two in the same apiary. My apiary is located at a bottom side of a mountain. The mountain is 4km long and 2000m above sea level my apiary is at 1800m above sea level. The mountain is mostly covered by trees and srubs on both sides. So do you think my plan is feasible ?

Hi Stewart. I have read elsewhere that the demaree method can also increase honey production. I do however have a query on this and wonder whether you could answer it. Once the original brood box in in effect a “super” is it safe to harvest the honey assuming that the frames in question were subject to verroa treatment previously be that apisan or similar or oxalic acid?

Hi Stewart, where did you get the filter from. It appears around a 200 micron mesh but I can find one that size. Thanks

Haah look at the suit, big poof is scared of bees 🤣

Jeremy wade get back to your river.

Glad I'm not the only one with boxes with scars like that. 😂

More accurately they "can roar" but always remember bees do nothing invariably. Several times I've split a hive in queen finding and she was in the noisy half. So to state that they always roar is just misleading.

From a hygiene perspective, what do you do with the equipment (especially supers) that has been in contact with mice?

Hi Stewart, how do you dispose of the water/soda/wax afterwards please

Like a kid playing basically to simply your explanation

I AM LIKE YOU VIDEOS & THEY ARE INTERESTING. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Hi Stewart from southern New Zealand 👋 weather apps in New Zealand are probably quite different but i use three, weatherwat h, which is reasonably accurate, nz met service and a Norwegian weather app of all things called Yr weather which is also reasonably accurate. Living in a mountain region in the middle of the largest island of New Zealand presents interesting challenges for weather prediction and ive never found a single forcaster who gets it right 70 percent of the time, it just the nature of living in mountains but between the three i get a reasonable picture of what might happen weatherwise😬😂 we've had a rough start to spring here, wet snow for the last three weekends and it's our main thyme nectar flow right now so the flowers are out but the weather is up and down for flying temperatures and a lot of rain is washing nectar out but thats the nature of beekeeping. Great flowering year because of all the water, rubbish cold weather for gathering 😂 soft set honey, which we call creamed honey in southern New Zealand still gives me nightmares 😂as an apprentice, during my training i was sent to another beekeeper in Milton in the lower south island My mentor thought it was important i learned from other beekeepers as part of my training to learn different approaches. one of my first jobs every morning and evening while i was there for six weeks was stirring the very large mixing tank for creamed clover honey with a wooden oar😂 for forty minutes. Still makes me nervous, six weeks of that during my training was enough to cure me of creaming honey for life😅 and this all came about when I asked my mentor why we didn't produce creamed honey😅 thankfully the process is much simpler especially for small batch making these days. Great podcast video and thanks for posting this 👋😃

Why not warm it up then it goes back to normal then after it cools whip it in your blender until creamy? Instead of spending an hour stirring?

Treatment “over a 3 week period”. Is that repeated treatment each week for 3 weeks? Many thanks.

Hi Stewart and that was great, very professional, it’s nice to have caught up with yo a bit this year as you’ve posted a few more things on KZbin, I didn’t know you did a podcast so thank you. Kind regards 👍😊

That was great, thanks

Do you "have to" wait a week between making your 1kg seed and putting it into the 10kg bucket? If so, why? And why is it different from when you make your 100g seed and put it directly into the 1kg bucket?

I've owned two of their suits, including one summer suit like you are reviewing, it tore up easy and it's very heavy, does the job but if you use it regularly consider spending a bit more. I went to Swienty breeze suits, one year on I bought a second one to have for helpers, makes wearing a suit more bearable !

I've had exactly same issue with my fencing veil. I've contacted them and they've told me that they are going back to the old design of the fencing veil and will send me a replacement veil when they come into stock.

I've also been wearing one of these suits (XL with a round veil) this year and it's been very good. The only thing I've changed is to add some braces to put the weight on my shoulders instead of around my neck. With that change it has been a great suit. If I could change anything else, I'd like a slightly larger hat size. The supplied one rather small for me.