I'm about to put on my first honey super after the bees have just about finished drawing comb in two brood boxes. From what I've read, people use either 8 or 9 frames in their honey supers, just wondering about what most people here choose to do. I'm using all deeps. Thanks for any imput.
Honey is a sweet fluid made by honeybees using the nectar of flowering plants. There are many different kinds of honey because there are many kinds of flowers. Honey can vary in color, smell and taste. Honey is mostly sugar. People may use it to make foods sweeter. It has other ingredients that can help kill bacteria, viruses and fungi. Honey may help lower swelling and irritation, also called ...
Generally, there's no advantage to substituting honey for sugar in a diabetes eating plan.
Several studies focusing on the common cold suggest that honey may help calm coughs in adults and children over 1 year of age.
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For many years robbing and processing honey being driven by weather, bloom cycles or the bees in my operation. I have struggled with what to do with uncapped frames or times when even capped honey holds too much moisture to be considered safely cured. With the current monsoon here in the...
All 3 made a super of honey which is unheard of from packages here in my part of NC. However, all of the colonies are exceptionally defensive. One in particular will charge you through smoke and follow you several hundred yards stinging the entire way.