Hope all is well, looking forward to seeing your updates for this year. My two colonies seem to have got thru the winter ok, lots of pollen coming in, hoping to get my numbers up a bit this year. 😅
Hi Chris, myself and a couple of fellow beeks at our club save up all our wax and send it all together at the end of the year to thornes bee supplies and exchange it all for frames and foundation I’ll tell you it saves us all a good few £££s we would be buying in equipment. Thanks Chris for another great vlog my friend.
Hello Mark. That’s great advice. Often if you only have a couple of hives it takes forever to get enough wax to make it worth swapping. Clubbing together sounds like a brilliant idea.
Hello. We’ve been making some changes but all is sorted now. The next video will be posted in a couple of weeks. Thanks for your interest. All the best. Chris
Hi chris, another useful video. What tips do you have for cleaning the cappings which are removed from full frames. (Pulled 9 frames last week and need to know how to clean and separate wax from any left over honey) . Regards Andrew
Hello Andrew. I use a large pan over a Baby Burco. Once the wax has melted pour it through muslin into a bucket Anthony the wax will float on top of any honey. The honey can then only be used for cooking as it has been heated.
@@cotswoldbees thanks Chris, I know what we'll be doing tomorrow night. Was super pleased with harvest of 23 jars, 1 year a bee keeper today (anniversary of collecting nuc from you). Got another 9 frames to do, little ladies have been busy.
I have no experience with this but coming up to bed one evening I saw a large hornet on one of the top steps. I luckily avoided it and decided to deal with it in the morning.as it was motionless and paid no attention to me. Next morning it was gone. Later in the day I found it motionless in bowl on top of the dresser in the hall. Looks like it had fallen from the step to the bowl. I was going to gather it up and put it out. I never squash insects they deserve to live too. I felt sorry for it and wadded up some toilet paper which I soaked in water. I put it next to it. My girl fried came later and suggested we get a jar the water seems to have refreshed it somewhat. We moved the wad with bee on it into a jar. I had some honey in the pantry and the next morning with the long thin end of an artists brush dipped in honey I offered some. I got some response and left a dot on the wad next to it. It's been more than a week and it's quite active. It seems to be a bald faced hornet. The wad became dirty and I changed it for a cotton wad which I keep clean. I now soak a tiny piece of cotton ball in a dilution of honey and water which I've seen it eat. If it gets too active I put it in a dark corner of the server with a dark rag over it and it goes to sleep. Sleeping when I come and sleeps most of the time unless it put it near a sunny window which I've stopped doing. I think it's a queen overwintering indoors. I don't know if I should leave it alone totally or provide the food. It's cold here now and will be around freezing for the next few months. It became strong enough to startle me one day by fiercely grabbing on to the paintbrush and charging straight up. I just got the clear plastic cover on in time. It was quite upset when I changed the dirty toilet paper wad for the clean cotton was. I assumed it had a different scent. It's settled on it now. Sometimes it lays on top and sometimes it sleeps upside down clinging to the cotton pad. Sometimes it tucks it's head under the pad while sleeping upside down.
Hope all is well, looking forward to seeing your updates for this year. My two colonies seem to have got thru the winter ok, lots of pollen coming in, hoping to get my numbers up a bit this year. 😅
Great to hear all is well. New videos starting next week.
@@cotswoldbees look forward to seeing your updates, keep enjoying the cakes!
Very interesting!
Hi Chris, myself and a couple of fellow beeks at our club save up all our wax and send it all together at the end of the year to thornes bee supplies and exchange it all for frames and foundation I’ll tell you it saves us all a good few £££s we would be buying in equipment. Thanks Chris for another great vlog my friend.
Hello Mark. That’s great advice. Often if you only have a couple of hives it takes forever to get enough wax to make it worth swapping. Clubbing together sounds like a brilliant idea.
Very interesting, thanx.
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Well you be make more videos Chris ?
Hello. We’ve been making some changes but all is sorted now. The next video will be posted in a couple of weeks. Thanks for your interest. All the best. Chris
Hi chris, another useful video. What tips do you have for cleaning the cappings which are removed from full frames. (Pulled 9 frames last week and need to know how to clean and separate wax from any left over honey) . Regards Andrew
Hello Andrew. I use a large pan over a Baby Burco. Once the wax has melted pour it through muslin into a bucket Anthony the wax will float on top of any honey. The honey can then only be used for cooking as it has been heated.
@@cotswoldbees thanks Chris, I know what we'll be doing tomorrow night. Was super pleased with harvest of 23 jars, 1 year a bee keeper today (anniversary of collecting nuc from you). Got another 9 frames to do, little ladies have been busy.
Great stuff. I’m glad they are going well.
Nice dir
what kind of honey you make ?
Our main crops our borage & sainfoin- mainly comb honey
@@cotswoldbees our bees Kafkas bee make chestnut honey
I hope you post a new video soon.
New videos starting next week.
Good
I have no experience with this but coming up to bed one evening I saw a large hornet on one of the top steps. I luckily avoided it and decided to deal with it in the morning.as it was motionless and paid no attention to me. Next morning it was gone. Later in the day I found it motionless in bowl on top of the dresser in the hall. Looks like it had fallen from the step to the bowl. I was going to gather it up and put it out. I never squash insects they deserve to live too. I felt sorry for it and wadded up some toilet paper which I soaked in water. I put it next to it. My girl fried came later and suggested we get a jar the water seems to have refreshed it somewhat. We moved the wad with bee on it into a jar. I had some honey in the pantry and the next morning with the long thin end of an artists brush dipped in honey I offered some. I got some response and left a dot on the wad next to it. It's been more than a week and it's quite active. It seems to be a bald faced hornet. The wad became dirty and I changed it for a cotton wad which I keep clean. I now soak a tiny piece of cotton ball in a dilution of honey and water which I've seen it eat. If it gets too active I put it in a dark corner of the server with a dark rag over it and it goes to sleep. Sleeping when I come and sleeps most of the time unless it put it near a sunny window which I've stopped doing. I think it's a queen overwintering indoors. I don't know if I should leave it alone totally or provide the food. It's cold here now and will be around freezing for the next few months. It became strong enough to startle me one day by fiercely grabbing on to the paintbrush and charging straight up. I just got the clear plastic cover on in time. It was quite upset when I changed the dirty toilet paper wad for the clean cotton was. I assumed it had a different scent. It's settled on it now. Sometimes it lays on top and sometimes it sleeps upside down clinging to the cotton pad. Sometimes it tucks it's head under the pad while sleeping upside down.