Mixed in the comb with the capped honey and a few cells of clear liquid, is a few cells of much darker thicker looking stuff. Any thoughts what it might be?
Mixed in the comb with the capped honey and a few cells of clear liquid, is a few cells of much darker thicker looking stuff. Any thoughts what it might be?
Benn feeding syrup?
Yes, just stopped about two weeks ago.
Clear stuff is probably your sugar syrup. If you taste it, it will taste like honey, but be quite flavorless other than the sweetness.
What about the thicker darker looking stuff?
Is it transparent or opaque? If it's liquid and transparent it's honey. If it's opaque and pasty it's pollen.
Or is its opaque and pasty, its brood so young you can't see the larve yet.
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Scot Mc Pherson
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>Or is its opaque and pasty, its brood so young you can't see the larve yet.
But not darker looking...
It is dark brown and you can not see thru it.
Its probably honey that is being stored in brood combs. Not uncommon.
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