Tyla Glas Bees

Family who keep bees 🐝 as a hobby, located in the South Wales Valleys

18/10/2026

The first of our 2026 honey is finally in jars!

As we've mentioned before, this season has been focused on rebuilding colony numbers rather than maximising honey production.

Despite that, we've managed to take a few supers of honey from the hives and finally extracted this honey and got the first batch in jars

16/10/2026

Our last post showed us starting to process a batch of old wax and comb collected throughout the season.

This photo shows the result after the first cleaning cycle.

While there's still plenty of debris and impurities to remove, you can already see the amount of beeswax we've recovered.

Each rendering cycle leaves us with cleaner, purer wax as we work towards the finished product.

We're hoping another couple of cycles will give us beautiful clean beeswax ready for making our wood polish, chopping board conditioner and Christmas candles.

This is one of our favourite beekeeping jobs. There is something incredibly satisfying about watching black, old, dirty wax gradually transformed into beautifully clean golden beeswax.

05/10/2026

One of our beekeeping jobs at this time of year is processing all our old beeswax, we render it down through several cycles until it’s a lovely clean golden block of wax.

This photo shows the start of the process - we’ll post more photos as we work our way through the big pile of old wax.

02/10/2026

An early morning visit to our Treforest Apiary today to fit clearer boards ahead of removing the honey supers in a few days' time.

This will be the final honey harvest of 2026, bringing another beekeeping season to a close.

Once the last supers are off, our focus turns fully to preparing the colonies for winter, including treatments and ensuring the bees have everything they need to stay healthy through the colder months.

02/10/2026

Bought this from Meggy's Cyder at last weeks Malvern Show

It was flipping lovely

23/09/2026

A batch of cinnamon buns about to go into the oven

06/09/2026

Quick check of the bees this morning in our home apiary.

All colonies looking really strong going into winter. Still a few honey supers to take off and then we’ll start treating for varroa and getting the bees ready for the next few months.

The splits we did a couple of months ago have all grown beautifully and we have high hopes for these to over winter nicely.

We’ll be moving these from the nursery apiary to the main apiary in the next week or so so we can look after the bees all in one place.

29/08/2026

24/08/2026

Spaces available on Paddle UK, Sheltered Water Canoe & Kayak Coach Training 5th & 6th September. The course will run in South Wales.

Please get in touch for more information.

22/08/2026

Good crop of beans and tomatoes today

Address

Rhondda

Website

http://www.tylaglasbees.co.uk/

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