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Title: Stored sugar vs. honey - how to tell?
Post by: Davepeg on May 03, 2012, 07:08:57 PM
How can you tell if what you have in a frame is actual honey or just stored sugar syrup from feeding?  I usually don't take anything unless I know I have not been feeding for a while.
Title: Re: Stored sugar vs. honey - how to tell?
Post by: Kathyp on May 03, 2012, 07:29:05 PM
my rule is to assume that it's syrup if i'm feeding.  i don't feed with honey supers on and i don't take from the brood chamber.
Title: Re: Stored sugar vs. honey - how to tell?
Post by: AllenF on May 03, 2012, 07:37:35 PM
There is never a need to feed when you have honey supers on.  That honey is the extra that they make, for you.   
Title: Re: Stored sugar vs. honey - how to tell?
Post by: iddee on May 03, 2012, 08:02:07 PM
Taste it. If you like it, it's honey. :D
Title: Re: Stored sugar vs. honey - how to tell?
Post by: Robo on May 03, 2012, 08:29:27 PM
Too late now, but if your worried about it in the future,  use food coloring to dye your syrup.
Title: Re: Stored sugar vs. honey - how to tell?
Post by: Country Heart on May 04, 2012, 02:49:51 AM
Quote from: Robo on May 03, 2012, 08:29:27 PM
Too late now, but if your worried about it in the future,  use food coloring to dye your syrup.

Wow - great tip!
Title: Re: Stored sugar vs. honey - how to tell?
Post by: Michael Bush on May 04, 2012, 04:00:48 AM
>Wow - great tip!

But you may not like what you learn...
Title: Re: Stored sugar vs. honey - how to tell?
Post by: Jim134 on May 04, 2012, 05:56:37 AM
Quote from: Michael Bush on May 04, 2012, 04:00:48 AM
>Wow - great tip!

But you may not like what you learn...



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