Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: Intheswamp on October 05, 2012, 10:15:08 pm
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A couple of interesting articles...but I think these beekeepers' honey crops are history for the year. :-\
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-french-beekeepers-and-the-mystery-of-the-blue-honey-8199337.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-french-beekeepers-and-the-mystery-of-the-blue-honey-8199337.html)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19840555 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19840555)
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Oops, sorry, this has already been posted...
Ed
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Yes, the honey crop was wasted.
Keep in mind as honey standards are set in place around the country. That adulteration of honey would be not allowed. And bees have a knack of collecting from soda cans, recycling bins, and from any other sugar source. You can not control where a bees collect from. But defining honey as from only collected from "Floral" sources, opens up the possibility that any tested honey will be condemned, even with no foul play from the beekeeper. And I bet most beekeepers have something other than floral sources of honey in their hives.
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Red honey.........
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Red honey.........
Don't you mean Big Red Soda honey?
Dye some of your feed with pokedot food coloring this fall and see if some of it doesn't show up in your honey supers next summer.
Bees (at least my bees) can't follow instructions worth a hoot. If they did this whole forum would be unnecessary, you would just need to send the queen a registered letter telling he what you want her to do and then forget about it, instead of sitting up all night trying to out think 20 pounds of insects.
Come to think of it there would be no need for either a veil or a smoker in that case, just a good understanding between bee and man about what we humans expected from our bees.
I can see it now.
Hurry... Hurry... Hurry... step right up. Ladies and gentlemen for 10 cents, just one thin dime, 1/10th of one dollar I will sell... I mean teach your how to use this wonderful organic bee elixir so your bees too can learn how to read and write just like the bees of the ancient Pharaoooohs.
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Blue honey from 62 miles away? My bees would be blue in the face from just 5 miles away. :lau: :lau: -Mike
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Blue honey from 62 miles away?
I think that the by products plant was closer.