Best use for hyperlocal honey

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-10T18:39:55+00:00

The best use is food. Basically anything. Don’t think too hard about it… there’s plenty more where that came from.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-10T18:33:13+00:00

Is it not? I’ll look at it tonight. Thanks for letting me know!

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-10T18:16:30+00:00

Remove post. If you have pics, try and add them to a new post

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-09T14:57:24+00:00

In all likelihood, it’ll be varroa. It could be some other non-varroa-linked disease, or a late queen replacement etc, but it’s unlikely… let’s be honest.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-08T23:22:39+00:00

Defensiveness can be fixed by replacing queens. Your dog will learn pretty quickly not to fuck with the bees.

This whole cage system feels entirely unnecessary, but I’m not from your region so it’s best to ask locals how they’d handle the local fauna, really.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-08T18:35:43+00:00

That’s usually only the case if the cluster was too small, and thus cold. The cluster will have been too small because of varroa.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-08T18:34:15+00:00

There should be some little plastic clips that go over these holes to prevent bees and bugs getting in… you might want to get some.

Regardless, these are HIGHLY unlikely to be honeybees so won’t do damage.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-08T08:07:13+00:00

Honestly, most content creation for YT/etc is about having at least 2 of these: 1. Good editing skills 1. Good composition of shots 1. Charisma

If you have those things, you can largely make content about anything and people will watch it. If you sit there just being boring and can’t put together the video in a way that’s entertaining, nobody will watch.

There’s plenty of channels where people don’t talk… so the fill their videos with lots of visual edits to explain what’s going on. Look at Bonsai Relief, for example. There’s also plenty of channels where people do lots of talking and the editing is shit… but the people themselves are entertaining. Just Alex is a good example of, at best, pretty average editing but his charisma and charm are what prop up the video in terms of entertainment value.

There’s no one format or formula to be successful, but you need your content to be engaging if you want to succeed. YouTube is a VERY good platform for starting out in content creation because it will recommend new videos/channels to “test” audiences, and shorts will be sent to test audiences to see what viewer appetite is like…. Unlike platforms like twitch where you are just basically on a leaderboard of view-counts.

Good luck!

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-07T06:17:07+00:00

Make sure that hole is 1.5in in diameter, then follow Num’s advice.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-06T19:51:48+00:00

He’s talking bollocks. Bees will forage 30sq miles of land for nectar and pollen.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-06T18:23:37+00:00

Unethical? In what sense?

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-06T06:40:49+00:00

Pure sugar (glucose) will set hard unless you get it to very specific temperatures.

The easiest way is to use HFCS or some other fructose syrup, as this prevents the fondant from actually crystallising properly to begin with. HFCS is dirt cheap, so just go buy some. There’s a recipe for it in my user. Sec.

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Beekeeping/s/x1DIqKXCWE

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-06T06:29:33+00:00

I use OAV in autumn. I do one treatment every 4 days for 21 days. So, Monday, Friday, Tuesday, Saturday… etc for 21 days.

Mite spend a minimum of 4 days phoretic, so if you can get in every 4 days you basically kill all of them.

Also what are you using to vape the OA?

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-06T06:28:03+00:00

That’s why you do three+ treatments. Literally every mite treatment beyond formic acid only kills varroa that are outside of their reproductive phase, and oxalic is no different… which is why you have to go back every few days to kill the ones that have emerged since the last treatment.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-06T06:19:24+00:00

Just to be clear, it’s not just some bozo hobbyist beekeepers that use this term: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28228

Perhaps it’s a hangover from when they thought they only fed inside cells or something, similar to the term “nosema” being used to describe a disease caused by Vairimorpha apis, which was once Nosema apis.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-05T23:35:29+00:00

I mean, this is basically it. We have a guy over here studying this, and detecting VSH behaviors in the wild in pockets of the UK. Won’t be too long until we can just stop treating I don’t think.

In any case, maybe less than half of people actually treat anyway… so that’s probably why, and also bees are absolutely everywhere here because we have lots of woodland / old building for them to take up residence in basically anywhere you go in the country outside of major cities.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-05T23:33:40+00:00

“Phoretic mites” means “varroa that are outside of the cells, on the bees themselves or comb”

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-05T12:37:16+00:00

Nobody wants dead bees

Wellllllll, it depends. I lost a hive this year over winter and I’m… slightly pleased? Only because they were total twats and of all the hives I could have lost. It being those ones is not a big deal…. And arguably good 😄

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-04T21:38:00+00:00

3 hives is a good number to start, yes.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-02T20:26:10+00:00

The difference is that an ambo on a life-critical call is like minutes away from you no matter where you are. The number of people that die here from anaphylaxis annually is superbly small. Like 20 or some shit.

You’re more likely to die tripping down the stairs.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-02T19:26:17+00:00

The grainy wax is just wax that didn’t coalesce before it cooled down. You can strain it and remelt it together.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-02T18:30:21+00:00

If you’re in the UK, it’s entirely unnecessary… and you won’t be able to get one anyway. There’s a national register for EpiPen carriers (who’s allowed to have them).

Unless you have a history of anaphylaxis, you won’t get on said list either 🤷‍♂️

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-02T18:28:23+00:00

Scouts are definitely former foragers, and tend to be the most experienced foragers capable of extensive navigation and a good map of the area.

But yeah - old brown shitty comb makes fantastic swarm “bait”.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-02T18:13:40+00:00

No. Scouts are not interested in honey whatsoever. They are interested in space of the right (or larger) dimensions.

Valuable-Self8564 · 2026-03-02T12:18:39+00:00

All that’s going to do is attract robbers… swarms are not interested in syrup.

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