You have three or four frames of fermented honey and you hate the idea of wasting it. Should you give it to your bees? Although a honey bee is not old enough for a driver’s license, it does have a pilot’s license. So the short answer is “no.” A bee with a buzz does not […] Read more
Sometimes you get a frame of honey with many uncapped cells. The cells are uncapped because the nectar hasn’t been dehydrated to the level needed for long-term storage. For whatever reason, the bees did not finish drying those cells and now you are wondering what to do with them. If you extract the honey from […] Read more
Honey crystallizes because it is a supersaturated solution. This just means that there is more sugar dissolved in the water than the water can normally hold. There are several types of sugar found in honey, mostly glucose and fructose, but also sucrose and maltose. It is the glucose part that causes crystals to form. Some […] Read more
To produce honey, bees collect nectar from flowers and add enzymes from their honey stomachs. Once the mixture is stored in cells, the bees fan it with their wings until it dehydrates to a moisture content of about 16 to 18.5 percent. If the moisture content is higher than that, the bees simply won’t cap […] Read more