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Spring honey #6553007
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Pulled some honey off one of my hives Sunday. [Linked Image]

Re: Spring honey [Re: Matt28] #6553012
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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.

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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] #6553038
06/10/19 10:37 PM
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Up to 1500 eggs laid per day.


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Re: Spring honey [Re: Matt28] #6553040
06/10/19 10:39 PM
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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.


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Re: Spring honey [Re: Matt28] #6553045
06/10/19 10:42 PM
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Wow thats a lot of honey! Is that an above average haul for one hive?

Re: Spring honey [Re: Matt28] #6553051
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Looks like forty 1lb jars. That's below average in my area. I expect 60lb per minimum. 5 gallons honey is 60lbs.
If I hauled them to the mountains after the flow is done here I'd expect another 60 per.


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Re: Spring honey [Re: Matt28] #6553053
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 [Re: Matt28] #6553059
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Honey bees. They make the world go round. My favorite ....

Re: Spring honey [Re: Railroader] #6553067
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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.
Originally Posted by Railroader
Wow thats a lot of honey! Is that an above average haul for one hive?

Re: Spring honey [Re: yukonjeff] #6553068
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Originally Posted by yukonjeff
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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Originally Posted by Cathouse Jim
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.

Re: Spring honey [Re: warrior] #6553093
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Originally Posted by warrior
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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We robbed ours Saturday, some of the best we've had in years because the locust bloom was great this year. Got 60 quarts off of the 7 hives we robbed still have 30 jives untouched so it's going to be a good year. That looks great Matt and real consistent color. We had 3 different colors from the locust, cherry and tulip popular they were working

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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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Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
Originally Posted by warrior
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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I wish it would stop raining long enough to let my bees make a little honey.


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Re: Spring honey [Re: RM trapper] #6553161
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Originally Posted by RM trapper
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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Originally Posted by Jurassic Park
Originally Posted by warrior
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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Originally Posted by RM trapper
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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