Re: Spring honey
[Re: Matt28]
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06/10/19 10:10 PM
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Matt, that looks perfect for buttered biscuits.
I have a question for you as a beekeeper, today along a 35 mile stretch of highway I passed 8 separate bunches of hives. The furthest group may have been 30 yards from the road, the posted speed limit is 70 and I was driving a bit under. As I passed the hives it was like tracer bullets coming at me and at 10 plus bees would have hit my windshield at each hive village. A lot of traffic drives this road and many semis exceeding the speed limit. Seems like to me after a week there would be no bees left from road casualties. Do you see any logic for hives to be that close to the road and have so many bees lost? I felt bad about the ones that made contact with my windshield. How fast do honey bees reproduce?
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Re: Spring honey
[Re: Matt28]
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06/10/19 10:49 PM
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Sweet!! I know of two places bears have raided the hives and destroyed most everything. The keepers are putting up electric fences to try to keep them out but now that the secrets out I don't know if even that'll work. A lot of work goes into making honey but man is it ever worth it!
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Re: Spring honey
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06/10/19 11:11 PM
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44 1lb it's what they had capped in the top deep, there is another 6 wet frames that I left. I figure to get 40 or 50 pounds of this hive. I gave happy with what I got. Especially with all the rainy days that we have had that make it hard for the bees to fly. Wow thats a lot of honey! Is that an above average haul for one hive?
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Re: Spring honey
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Nice ! what kind is it. ? My girls are filling a deep super with spring honey here. I hope I get to steal some. They usually feed it all to brood. Fireweed is our main flow. I dont know for sure what all the have in there but they are on about 7 acre of clover, yellow hop and vetch. It been a wet spring so everything has bloomed.
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Re: Spring honey
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06/10/19 11:16 PM
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Matt, that looks perfect for buttered biscuits.
I have a question for you as a beekeeper, today along a 35 mile stretch of highway I passed 8 separate bunches of hives. The furthest group may have been 30 yards from the road, the posted speed limit is 70 and I was driving a bit under. As I passed the hives it was like tracer bullets coming at me and at 10 plus bees would have hit my windshield at each hive village. A lot of traffic drives this road and many semis exceeding the speed limit. Seems like to me after a week there would be no bees left from road casualties. Do you see any logic for hives to be that close to the road and have so many bees lost? I felt bad about the ones that made contact with my windshield. How fast do honey bees reproduce? That does seem kinda close but I am surprised the bees dont go up higher, they adapt pretty quick.
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Re: Spring honey
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06/11/19 12:15 AM
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Pulled honey last week. Some of the best I've tasted in years. If I had to posit a guess I'd say mostly locust blended with blackberry. Why would it taste different than past years? Honey is honey. Tastes the same every time I have it.
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Re: Spring honey
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06/11/19 12:37 AM
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Do you ever put comb in your jars, all the honey that my uncle sells to the summer residents(Floridians) he puts comb in it, they seem to buy it better
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Re: Spring honey
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06/11/19 05:39 AM
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Pulled honey last week. Some of the best I've tasted in years. If I had to posit a guess I'd say mostly locust blended with blackberry. Why would it taste different than past years? Honey is honey. Tastes the same every time I have it. lol will be all differnt kinds of honey in the same super some times. maybe your taster is broke or your buying the karo syrup blended honey that i hate to even see for sale.
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Re: Spring honey
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06/11/19 06:19 AM
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I wish it would stop raining long enough to let my bees make a little honey.
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Re: Spring honey
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Do you ever put comb in your jars, all the honey that my uncle sells to the summer residents(Floridians) he puts comb in it, they seem to buy it better I am running wood frames with rite cell foundation so I can't get comb in my honey. I won't to get some just wood frames and try to get them to draw that out so I can put comb in with some honey. I like the darker fall honey better then the lighter spring. The dark has a stronger taste to me.
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Re: Spring honey
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06/11/19 07:24 AM
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Pulled honey last week. Some of the best I've tasted in years. If I had to posit a guess I'd say mostly locust blended with blackberry. Why would it taste different than past years? Honey is honey. Tastes the same every time I have it. Honey is like wine with different flavors depending on the source of the nectar and that influenced by the soil and weather. Not just the taste but color and aroma as well as texture. Some honeys like basswood are water white while buckwheat or poplar are dark. Some will granulate or candy quickly like canola or aster while tupelo never will. Flavors range from mild and to wild. I have one small jar of bitterweed honey given to me. To look at it it is an almost perfect honey being bright golden yellow that has yet to granulate in the ten years I've had it but to taste it is an experience. The best I can describe it is industrial solvent, it strongly reminds me of hoppes #9. Honey can also be toxic or hallucinagenic as in rhododendron or medicinal as in monuka.
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Re: Spring honey
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Do you ever put comb in your jars, all the honey that my uncle sells to the summer residents(Floridians) he puts comb in it, they seem to buy it better That's called chunk honey and it is in demand in most areas. I know I keep getting requests for it. I started to make some this year but didn't get around to making up cut comb supers in time.
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