In response the the thread on recovering honey from small amounts of cappings: The easiest thing I have found is just to put everything into a bowl and pop it in the microwave until it reaches about 70 degrees celcius. At this point the wax and most other gunk will float to the top and eventually solidify. Pour the honey through a sieve once it cools down to about forty or so degrees and you will get a bottle of heated cooking grade honey, which will taste okay. Alternatively, if you still have an uncapped super on a hive, put the cappings in a flat container, put some warm water into it to dissolve the honey (just a very little), put a few chunks of polystyrene in the container and put it on top of the hive in an empty super. The bees will move it down and maybe finish the super for you. I do this with honey I get from wild hives, let the bees clean it up and put it into an extractable system for me. Takes a good hive about a day to move five kilos down into a super. Was quite surprised!(I usually put the combs on in the evening and then the bees don't mind getting themselves all sticky and aren't inclined to go out robbing. For some reason doing this in the day makes the hive that gets the honey boost go robbing. Bees are strange little creatures. Anyhow Keep well Garth --- Garth Cambray Kamdini Apiaries 15 Park Road Apis melifera capensis Grahamstown 800ml annual precipitation 6139 Eastern Cape South Africa Phone 27-0461-311663 3rd year Biochemistry/Microbiology Rhodes University In general, generalisations are bad. Interests: Flii's and Bees.