Honey color?

[Konrad]

When I was at the bee coarse, I asked the teacher, if you can see the different in color, from the dandelion [on now]
and the sugar I feed on my package, ......he said no.

I kind of have a hard time believing this....because the other day, when checking, I could see the dark honey??
I thought this has to be the dandelion honey and from the sugar it's clear?

What are you saying?

Konrad

[waxworker]

You can see a colour difference. Bees will convert sugar to honey and it will be coloured, not clear as in the sugar syrup you might feed them. Syrup honey has a very light yellow colour. Some honeys are very light coloured and the unscrupulous beekeeper can adulterate nectar honey with sugar syrup honey but the taste difference is noticeable.
Pat

[Robert Hawkins]

Konrad if you have your honey supers on you shouldn't be feeding. Well maybe if you're collecting winter stores for the bees. But that's all you can do with honey collected while you're feeding. Don't try to sell it as honey. It's immoral. It's NOT honey. It gives us all a bad name.

Hawk

[jalal]

its just a sugar syrup with a lower moisture content tongue.gif

how abouts that green honey?

[Joel]

Jalal, In our part of the country the green honey comes from Purple Loosestrife. Your part of the country may have something similar or a completely different green nectar source. Each Flower nectar contributes it's own coloration from trees like basswood that are very light amber, green loosestrife, Red Japenese Bamboo (knotweed), and black Buckwheat.

[Konrad]

Thank you all!
Hawk,
no honey super, just put on second brood box.....and still feeding, [drawing pierco foundation]
Konrad

[Robert Hawkins]

Thank you sir,

You scared me. We gotta keep that honey pure.

Hawk