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Title: Another Q About OAV
Post by: .30WCF on August 20, 2020, 10:54:14 PM
You must remove it shield the honey supers from OAV. Can the frames and comb later be used as honey frames, or, once an OAV frame, always an OAV frame?


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Title: Another Q About OAV
Post by: TheHoneyPump on August 21, 2020, 04:28:52 AM
OA coats everything in very fine crystal dust as it condenses in the hive. It dissipates over time by bee hygeine. 
The reason to remove or isolate the honey supers before treating is the OA crystals can be absorbed into the honey. If not separated you will have honey that smells like cooked cauliflower/broccoli and has a sharp vinegar/acid tang to the taste.  It is not harmful, unless you have oxalates sensitivities. It just alters the honey taste.

Hope that helps.
Title: Re: Another Q About OAV
Post by: .30WCF on August 21, 2020, 06:03:48 PM
Ooooo, I might like that then. Sometimes we make cauliflower mashed ?potatoes?.


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