Bee.Wales

still have a few more left for christmas

I'm selling a Christmas gift from the hive, a jar of pure Welsh honey and candle with a natural honey dipper

I now have a new supply and they come sealed in cellophane to keep them smelling lovely

A few photos so you can get some idea

People often ask me how do you make beeswax candles, well it's not me who makes the wax but the bees who do all the hard work but it does need some simple preparation before we can make candles. I use only the capping wax that the bees use to cap the honey off as this is the cleanest wax to use and ...

When it is full and 75% of the stored honey is capped and no honey is removed when given a sharp shake.
you can buy a honey fractometer if you are unsure about the uncapped honey, you can pick these up from the internet shops for under £20

What an eventful year so far. Bees are doing really well despite a high number of failed matings reported locally, lucky for me I only had one this year with some beekeepers reporting a very high level in full hives and the complete opposite in nucs, I'm still trying to get to grips why this is so a...

Just extracted some spring honey which has a darker appearance than the usual summer honey, the taste is similar to toffee or nuts, or both and is one of the nicest honeys I have tasted.

This deadly chemical is now being used by the Welsh government to spray weeds around our water courses, little do they know the impact it is creating Anencephaly (birth defect): An investigation into neural tube defects among babies born to women living within 1,000 meters of pesticide applications ...

What a beginning, three supers on some colonies already and some on double brood. Despite this last cold snap bees have been busy as ever collecting nectar and pollen. No sign of swarm activity yet but it won't be long considering the size of colonies