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Offline brooksbeefarm

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Yuck
« on: November 02, 2015, 07:27:18 pm »
  :o This spring i put 2 deep supers of honey (from dead outs) in the shed where i keep empty supers. I was going to use them  to start nucs, well i got busy and forgot about them. I went out this afternoon to put some supers of drawn comb in the shed :o. There was black sticky runny stuff (like Molasses) all over the floor with SHB larva mixed in and when i pulled the two supers apart it was larva city Yuck,. What honey that was left in the frames had been slimmed >:( I took the frames out and put them on a flatbed trailer outside the door in the bright sun ( temp mid 70's F) to kill the larva and of course bees started coming to it. Most didn't want anything to do with the nasty mess, but some did and i watched them and seen some of them falling off the frames and stagger around ?? they looked sick, crawling around not able to fly? will that slim kill bees? Jack

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Re: Yuck
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2015, 07:54:06 pm »
It wasn't honey that had fermented was it? Booze will do that.
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Re: Yuck
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2015, 08:19:30 pm »
Don't tell Jack he can get a cheap drunk on that black slime.  Dang Perry, you an an ENABLER.  :):)

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Re: Yuck
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2015, 08:34:47 pm »
 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Re: Yuck
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2015, 10:32:06 pm »
It didn't have a bad smell or fermented??  :P  ;D Jack

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Re: Yuck
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2015, 11:14:31 pm »
not sure what the answer here is jack, but from your title on this thread 'Yuck' and slimy description of the frames, they would have been fire material for me, that's just me though. (i would try and salvage/melt down the wax though if i could).............. :)
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