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Syrup and harvest calculators, a queen-rearing calendar and online logbooks: free tools for the apiary.
Contents
- 01CalculatorsSyrup, fondant, queen-rearing dates, honey yield and moisture.7 tools
- 02Online logbooksApiary register, honey house log and inspection log, kept in your browser.3 tools
- 03DirectoryBeekeeping schools, associations and beekeepers near you.29 fiches
- 04ClassifiedsSwarms, queens, used equipment and apiary sites, between beekeepers.1 tool
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- Calculators
Sugar syrup for bees calculator
Sugar syrup for bees, worked out for you: NBU thick and thin syrup, 2:1 and 1:1 by weight or ready-made invert syrup, with the sugar, water and dose per hive.
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Fondant for bees calculator
Fondant for bees in winter: how many 1 kg or 2.5 kg blocks your hives need, and the sugar and water for homemade bee candy, with the NBU’s safety advice.
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Queen rearing calendar
Enter your grafting or Cupkit date: cell builder, capping, mating nucs, emergence, mating and first eggs, day by day, ready to export to your calendar.
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Honey yield and price calculator
How many 1 lb, 12 oz or 8 oz jars will your hives fill, and what is left after jars, labels and sugar? A honey price calculator in pounds sterling.
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Honey moisture content: refractometer check
Is your honey ripe? Check a refractometer reading against the 18 % target and the UK legal limits of 20 % and 23 % for heather, and work out a blend.
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Varroa mite calculator
Natural mite drop, sugar roll, alcohol wash or drone brood: estimate the mites in your colony and compare the count with the National Bee Unit’s thresholds.
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Queen marking colours
White, yellow, red, green or blue: the colour to mark a queen bee by the year she emerged, and the age of a marked queen from her colour, on the five-year code.
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Veterinary medicine record for bees
Keep the bee medicine record the VMD requires: purchases, treatments, withdrawal periods and disposal, kept for 5 years, in your browser, with print and export.
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Honey extraction and batch record
Lot marks, extraction dates, moisture, jars and best before dates: a honey house record that traces every jar back to its supers and its hives.
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Hive record card online
A free online hive record card: queen seen, eggs, BIAS, queen cells, stores, temper and mite drop, hive by hive. Filter, export to CSV and print.
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Beekeeping associations directory
BBKA, SBA, WBKA and UBKA member associations, bee inspectors, honey labs and teaching apiaries, county by county.
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Beekeeping classifieds
Nucs, queens, used equipment and apiary sites between UK beekeepers, with every advert checked before it goes live.
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