Beekeeping - Short and Sweet

Be Warned! Oxalic Acid Sublimation for the treatment of Varroa is a healthy and safety exercise first and foremost. You must take every precaution to ensure the safety of both yourself and those around you. Today we're on location treating our colonies with Oxalic Acid Sublimation using the ProVap220 which is available from my website www.norfolk-honey.co.uk/provap220 Pete and I travelled to...

Hi I’m Stewart Spinks and welcome to my podcast, Beekeeping Short and Sweet. This week I’m looking forward to the start of the new season with some thoughts of what to look out for in that first inspection of the season. Although it’s quite cold outside and the frosts have begun in earnest, the sun is shining brightly today unlike yesterday when we had quite dense fog for most of the day, and it’s...

Planning for the new season is an important part of every year, making sure everything is in place for a successful start to the new beekeeping season. My plans are fairly straighforward but it's always important to get something committed to paper so you know where you're heading. Once you have it fixed you can go back to your plan and make sure you're on track. Support the show

This week is a brief review of this season's beekeeping. Another season gone and another Christmas upon us. I'm grateful for all the help and support I've had over the last year and want to thank everyone who has supported me in trying to bring beekeeping to as many people as possible. Support the show

More beekeeping chat about preparing our hives for the Winter oxalic acid treatments, the local beekeeping club has it's Christmas party and a start of a discussion about the Honey Regulations 2015 Support the show

My regular monthly Questions and Answers podcast with some timely questions about feeding bees overWinter. Check out my full range of microscopes and books on my website www.norfolk-honey.co.uk You can find Randy Oliver's website at www.scientificbeekeeping.com Support the show

Although there are not many jobs to be attended to in December there are a couple of important issues to be sorted. Making sure woodpecker damage doesn't occur it's important to get some protection on during this month. I'm also thinking about repairs, renewal and replacement of equipment particularly my hive floors. I need to make up around 40 or more in total and have an idea for...

In this week's podcast I travel down to Chippenham, Wiltshire. UK., to interview Alan Potter, Managing Director of Brunel Microscopes. Brunel Microscopes supply equipment to a wide range of organisations and beekeepers for a small but important part of their customer base. The exciting news is that we are now able to announce we have become Authorised Distributors of Brunel Microscopes and ca...

Well, I don’t know about you guys but for me, As the season progresses we seem to be constantly accumulating beeswax in a range of different guises, brace comb, burr comb, frames that have become too old and need replacing, frames that have been drawn out just the ways the bees want it but completely at odds with how we would like it.  The best way to deal with it is to render it down and save it...

My regular monthly questions and answers session where I reply to questions submitted via my Patreon page www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney Questions about woodpecker protection, the dreaded wax moth in supers and the use of Oxalic Acid sublimation. The latter question I was able to answer with some details from a research paper and I promised to detail the paper here so her is the reference: Hasan M A...

I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you Autumn has finally arrived and last weekend here in the UK, we turned our clocks back. With the turning back of the clocks we suddenly got hit with some colder weather and we’ve now had a couple of frosty mornings where I had to scrape the ice off the Windscreen of the pick up. All of this means the one thing - Cluster time! It’s a quiet period for us beekeep...

As we head into the Autumn and Winter months I wanted to revisit some of the more important aspects of beekeeping. this week I wanted to talk about the two foul brood diseases, American Foul Brood and European Foul brood.  A lot of the information I’m discussing in today’s podcast comes directly from the National Bee Units Foul Brood  Disease of Honey Bees Booklet that can be downloaded free of ch...

Oxalic Acid treatments over the Winter period are a great way to remove unwanted varroa mites prior to the start of the new season, in today's podcast I share my thoughts on how I will be treating my colonies this year. Check out the Sublimator that I will be using on my website where you will find it available to purchase www.norfolk-honey.co.uk/provapp220 Two of the very best informative be...

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Learn all about getting started in Microscopy for Beekeepers. During the long, cold Winter months it's nice to have something beekeeping related to turn to just to keep building on the knowledge gained in the season just ended. Microscopy is an excellent way to learn new skills and learn more about how our honeybees function. It is also a way of being able to self-diagnose some disease issues...

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Our monthly Questions and Answers session with questions sent in from our Patreon page www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney If you're interested in checking out the Jumbo Green Rapid Feeders from Maismore then here's the link http://www.bees-online.co.uk/detail.asp? ID=378&name=Maisemore-Jumbo-Rapid-Feeder-(Green) Support the show

Jobs around the apiary for September include the important job of uniting weaker colonies, today I discuss this and some other important jobs to carry out this month. Don't forget you can catch up with the very latest podcast release on my patreon page www.patreon.com/norfolkhoney here you can not only listen to the latest podcast but watch all of my beekeeping videos and at the same time sup...

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Feeding your honeybees in preparation for Autumn and Winter can be quite a traumatic time but never fear, help is at hand! In today's podcast, we follow on from last week's chat about making sure you have a queenright colony and that any treatments for varroa have been properly applied. I discuss feeding in general and more specifically how I feed my bees in preparation for the long Wint...

With August fast passing us by it's time to get the colonies in good shape for the Autumn and Winter ahead. I find there are three things I need to get sorted to make sure my colonies are in the best shape possible to get through the Winter successfully and ready for a fast start in the New Year. Make sure we have queenright colonies, make sure they have been treated for varroa where necessar...

Beekeeping Short and Sweet, a beekeeping podcast for the inquisitive beekeeper with a short attention span, a beekeeper, in fact, just like me! This month's Q&A features wax moth, hive types, dark honey and a range of other interesting questions.  Support the show

August already! How on earth did that happen, this is episode 26 and I have no idea how the weeks have just raced passed. For me August is a kind of a bittersweet month, on the one hand it’s really exciting as this is when I take off our Summer crop of honey and on the other hand it kind of signals the push towards the end of the season. For me, there is no move to the heather to grab a late crop...

Clearing our Honey boxes ready for extraction we prefer the Rhombus clearer boards but there are several different types out there, In this week's podcast I describe a range of methods of clearing supers and succumb to a bout of Summertime Man Flu! Support the show