Author Archives: Ewa&Mikael

Invintra på LjungDen allmänna åsikten är att ljunghonung innehåller för mycket antioxidanter och mineraler och kommer leda till utsot och därför ska all honung bort. Eftersom ljunghonung är eftertraktad och genererar betydligt bättre betalt än vanlig honung så kan man undra om en del av anledningen möjligen ligger där?Nå, är utsot månne något hittepå? Nejdå, eftersomContinue reading “Ljunghonung som vintermat”

English summary: Honey can only carry 20% water without a high risk of fermentation. Heather honey is claimed to be able to carry 23% whithout issues which we found very odd. My hypothesis is that the different value is due to a measuring error because there will be air trapped in the honey spreading theContinue reading “Myt om ljung”

English summary: While waiting for the heather the bees is now going after the ripe raspberry. Varje år är det samma fråga – blir det någon ljung i år. Frågan är befogad efterssom det krävs både regn och värme vid rätt tidpunkt och på våra breddgrader får vi ljung vart tredje år eller så ävenContinue reading “1 augusti – väntan på ljung”

English summary: We are in July and there are some potential flow such as heather, honey dew and clover. Unfortunately its very dry so we don’t expect any further major flow and thus we start to prepare our colonies for the winter in. The nuc’s gets their honey combs and the production hives is reducedContinue reading “Invintringen påbörjad”

English summary: Yet another internet hoax where it is claimed that if one swirl honey in water we see this cool pattern, that would indicate real honey, but unfortunately we see same pattern with syrup. There is no easy trick to determine whether honey is fake or real. På nätet finns diverse bluffar som väntarContinue reading “Nytt fake honey test”

English summary: We were very hopeful that we would see a nice flow from Linden this year since we heard the mighty humming from thousands of pollinators. However, the result was quite meager with only a few combs of this delicious honey with the sharp taste of mint. On the bright side several of theContinue reading “22 Juli – Linddraget som kom av sig samt märkning av drottningar.”

English summary: DNA tests of cheap honey in the stores have revealed that most imported honey is fake honey. There are claims that an easy test exists that will tell whether the honey is real or fake by simply put a teaspoon of it in water. Syrup should dissolve directly whereras the honey would not.Continue reading “20 Juli: Fake test test”

English summary: We collect quite many swarms each year as part as our strategy to grow based on swarms and our own nuc’s. This year we have collected several 2nd swarms since they were quite small and had a non mated queen. But one swarm was very special – it was of normal size (aboutContinue reading “13 Juli-raketsvärmen”

Englis summary: It’s now time to focus on the bees need for winterfood. Our method is to collect frames each week as they are produced and save the ones we are sure contain proper honey (I.E not fast chrystallizating honey such as Canola). We aim for about 5 frames per colony, stored in our plasticContinue reading “5 Juli”

English summary: We inspected 20 colonies during one of the hottest days this year. We found egg laying queens in two of our big colonies that wanted to swarm (we stopped it) and in one case supersedure of the queen. In both cases we suspected failed mating since the bees were a bit irritated butContinue reading “30 juni – stor genomgång”