Honey

[Glenmar]

If you cut the grass too close to the hive, will they sting you??

 

[whitejerabias]

Honey is amazing. It is delicious, it is also anti bacterial and anti microbial.

Honey for eating and sugar substitute.

Honey as wound care- topically, spread on wound and then cover in dressing. I recommend ranch. Just kidding, a gauze dressing.

Honey for hair care- dilute with water 90/1 ratio and use as a rinse. Hydrating. Makes sure to rinse out well. Honey is sticky.

Honey for hoo ha care- to battle the yeast beast you can use it topically, just swipe it on. It also helps to up your intake of it as well. You can use these same methods with plain yogurt. For God sakes only use plain yogurt. Mmmm, maybe yogurt and honey... I think I am getting myself off topic.

Honey crystallizes when it gets cold or older but is perfectly safe and just as tasty. In fact I like it because the mess is more controlled. To get it back to liquid you just immerse the jar in boiling water.

Never feed honey to an infant. They say under 1yr. Something or other about botulism.

The best treat in my opinion is coconut oil and honey spread on so good artisan bread. Oh my goodness I am drooling. Excuse me...

ETA: you can also preserve stuff in honey. Who was it that used to preserve their dead in honey?

 

[zzGypsy]

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depends on the bees. carbon dioxide can alarm them, as can motor noises and bumping their hive. I've had some mellow italians that wouldn't bat a wing, but some of them might get cranky.
I don't mow around my hives - I've got a lovely european sythe I use, it's quite. but yes, mowing might be a problem. or it might not.

 

[zzGypsy]

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Well where I live in SW Washington when the hives don't have ventilation they may get mold and the worms will move in. We have not done any studies or anything scientific but we have seen that hives that failed tended to have a lot of moisture inside.

typical winter humidity between SW WA and MT is probably very different... so like many things, it's probably regional.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Well where I live in SW Washington when the hives don't have ventilation they may get mold and the worms will move in. We have not done any studies or anything scientific but we have seen that hives that failed tended to have a lot of moisture inside.

typical winter humidity between SW WA and MT is probably very different... so like many things, it's probably regional.

Very true and that is why I say there no hard and fast rules. We have a huge moiture problem here. After all We live in the swamp.

 

[Avalon1984]

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Think positive !! If your bees had good numbers, a strong laying queen, and plenty of stores they should be fine. Also you mentioned doing a split but keep in mind that by October the Drones would be gone so there would not be anybody for a new queen to mate with. That would surely cause at least half of the split to fail.

Well thank you for the great advise! I am glad I didn't split them then. I was just so worried because there were so many of them all of a sudden. Like the entire neighborhood folks came to live with them. We have huge blueberry fields around the hive, as well as large pastures where they can find clover and different grasses. When i checked on them they had an incredible storage of honey in all of the supers, so I am hoping for the best. I would be so excited if they made it.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Is it possible to eat TOO much honey on a daily basis?

What is considered excessive?

 

[EKC Farms in the desert]

As a kid I loved eathing the honey comb that a local farmer would give my mom for me. I looked for some a few weeks ago while at the grocery store. Hoping in the section for the local honey there would be a jar with the comb in it. But had no luck. I would really like to have some honey comb one of these days- before I have diabetes and can't have it!!

 

[kuntrygirl]

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They sell honey with the comb in it?

 

[zzGypsy]

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They sell honey with the comb in it?

indeed they do!
you can get jars of honey with a section of comb inside.
you can also get little boxes that are just the comb with honey in it - in fact they make a special frame for putting in the bee hive so the bees make the comb right in the box for you - once they fill the box with comb and honey and cap it off, you pull the frame, pop the boxes out, put a lid and label on them and take them to market!