Subject: Is Your Honey Fake As Well?

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Why Feeding Bees Leads to

FAKE Honey !

Are you feeding your bees sugar water to sustain them or help them build up? That's 'OK' IF You Feed Them This Way...

 
 
 

Hi Friend,


I have great sympathy for beekeepers. These are hard times enough as it is but to have an active practice of fraud across the globe about fake honey.


Here's how you can avoid inadvertently adding to the ongoing list of countries, as well as consumers, that are finding themselves victims of a widespread issue!

 

HOW YOU FEED YOUR BEES WITHOUT FALLING INTO THE

TRAP OF MAKING FAKE HONEY WITH SYRUP!

Keeping bees will always mean that our bees have seasons of ebb and flow or, nectar flow and dearth. Dearth is at its highest during the winter months. Little or no flowers leads to low or no pollen and nectar forage for our bees.


I am sorry to inform you but if you feed your bees without proper planning you are adding to the myriad of sales of fake honey made from syrup.


Whenever we feed a colony with sugar water there is a fair chance of that syrup being eaten by honeybees and used within the hive for energy as nectar would be. However, there is always the risk that a portion of the sugar water is stored inside the hive.


Either way, bees get the short end of the stick. Why?


When we feed our bees, we usually either choose a formula with a ratio of either 1:1 or 2:1 depending on the underlying goal.


We as beekeepers typically use the sugar feeding to provide a substitute nectar source for the bees when we recognise they need food and don't have enough or when we want to promote the idea that there is food available to get bees to begin expansion!


There’s many risks involved:

  • Always remove any super chambers when feeding your bees

  • Ensure that any 'honey comb' in the brood chamber is removed before adding any super chambers on top for providing storage for nectar flow

  • Do not overfeed. Ensure that your volume of feeding matches with the size and needs of the colony and the period for which you feed as well.

  • Ensure you also use a tablespoon of lemon juice to help keep any fermentation

  • Internal feeding is recommended over hive entrance feeding as this could encourage robbing by stronger colonies of weaker colonies.

  • Avoid external feeding at all costs with sugar water

  • Only feed when it is actually purposeful and necessary:

    • to build a colony that would consume the amount of sugar water to stimulate the colony's laying and egg production

    • to sustain the colony during an extreme dearth period like that which happens in the winter months AND only after removing the super chamber/s.

  •  ALWAYS avoid feeding when you have a super chamber on the brood chamber

Thank you for your time.

"May the flow bee forever in your favour!"

2024 © W Selzer

How We Promote Local Is Lekker Honey!

In order to develop a strong local industry we, as beekeepers, have to focus on a number of aspects to ensure consumers and customers can build confidence and trust in the product they are eating is local, is quality and is produced by bees foraging on nectar flow from flowers that imbue the essence of the same.


  1. Ensure branding is paramount

  2. Labelling is paramount

  3. Label Design and logo is professional

  4. Accurate honey varietal is noted on packaging

  5. Tell a story about your honey

  6. Include a note about honey granulation taking place naturally

  7. Include "Made in South Africa" type of pledge

  8. Be active on social media with honey-related stories

  9. Share your story of keeping bees

  10. Let's all be Bee Ambassadors!

  11. Make sure packaging meets food labelling requirements

The Honey Hot List!

Double Honey Strainer
Double Honey Strainer

Double Honey Strainer

Stainless steel double strainer for effective honey filtering and straining.

Expandable

ZAR 285.00
Super Chambers -assembled in full
Super Chambers -assembled in full

Super Chambers -assembled in full! - *shipping not included**

Bee WARE supplies super chambers ready & assembled for use in the field on existing bee colonies and apiaries!

Supplied with wax strips only and all frames wired and assembled the honey super chamber is made to be used immediately!

It has been weather treated with Waksol already which will keep it protected for at least 5 years, longer if well maintained.

They each contain 10 assembled frames. Made to fit Langstroth sizes and are compatible with all langstroth design beehives!

They weigh an estimated 7Kg each when shipped.Queen excluders are NOT included.

Postage is additional cost and goes on volume pricing.

 

Tracking is provided once payment is received and goods are posted. Travel is usually 3-5 working days from time

ZAR 560.00
Manual Wax Press
Manual Wax Press

Manual Wax Press

Honeycomb wax press is a manual wax press machine for processing honeycomb and cappings from honey harvests not using frames. It is a manual wax press that requires corkscrew type manual twisting to make the vice move lower and higher to squeeze the comb so the honey can escape by way of crushing the comb and cappings. The honey then escapes down the sides and out the funnel at the front end. This leaves the beeswax behind and is about 85% clean of honey. Not all residue is removed using this process however it is effective. The beeswax forms a round shaped cake for further handling and processing. Run the honey through a double strainer which is a macro filter made from stainless steel into buckets and or settling tanks.
ZAR 3,010.00
Refractometers
Refractometers

Refractometers

Moisture content is vital in determining the ripeness of honey as too much moisture leads to fermentation and degradation of the honey.

Where moisture is 16-18% the content is considered mature and the honey is ripe.

This unit is a mobile unit that can be used anywhere.

Refractometers are used to measure moisture content in honey for grading purposes.

ZAR 1,144.00
Honey Gate - Plastic
Honey Gate - Plastic

Honeygate Tap

Plastic honeygate taps are used to help bottle honey from a bucket or other type of container. Our honeygates are yellow and made from plastic. They include the typical scissor action to help prevent leaks when pouring honey. Cut a hole in the bucket and place one half inside the bucket near the bottom. Place the other half outside the bucket or container. Screw them together and make it tight. Test it with honey or water. Make sure the seal is closed tight and the hole you cut out is at the lowest part of the bucket or container. Do not cut the hole bigger or larger than the diameter of the tap itself. The diameter of the honeygate tap is 40mm wide.
ZAR 224.00
Nylon Conical Honey Strainer
Nylon Conical Honey Strainer

Nylon Strainer Honey Filter

Mesh Nylon strainer honey filter with wire rim inlay that fits large buckets for filtering crushed honey comb. Looks a lot like a white witch's hat made from nylon and is great for straining honey when crushing the honey and not using an extractor. Nylon conical strainers are the perfect tool for when you are crushing the honeycomb and not using a spinner to harvest the honey. The Nylon Conical strainer or honey strainer filter works like a big tea bag keeping the beeswax inside and letting the honey drip through.
ZAR 145.00
8-Way Bee Escape - Yellow Plastic
8-Way Bee Escape - Yellow Plastic
It's the 8-way bee escape used for getting bees out of the super chamber and into the brood chamber so that it is possible to remove the super chamber without many bees still inside it. We don't sell the wooden component but any plastic or wooden or even cardboard can be used as you cut a hole in it and place the bee escape over the hole where the bees will enter and then they walk out the 8 escape routes and down into the brood chamber. One of the hassle of harvesting honey is how to get the bees out of the super chamber... Well, now you know you can use the 8-way bee escape! Postage or courier is extra. Collection is free from the store in Centurion.
ZAR 80.00
Uncapping knife
Uncapping knife
Uncapping knife for uncapping the beeswax seal on the honeycomb to allow for the honey to escape and extract easily and without damaging the comb cells. This way, they can be refilled very quickly and you could harvest again within 7-10 days.
ZAR 135.00
4-Frame Honey Extractor - Manual
4-Frame Honey Extractor - Manual

4-Frame Stainless Steel Honey Extractor - Manual

Fits both super frames and brood frames for spinning honey.
  This item goes well with: Intermediate Bee course for maximising your honey production and making more bee colonies to use or sell.  

How best to use honey spinners with expert tutorials

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