Worldwide Beekeeping
Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: litefoot on July 25, 2014, 04:30:58 pm
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I've got capped red honey scattered here and there. This is just the latest episode in a truly crazy year. Anyone else seen this? My guess is hummingbird feeder syrup. I'll post pics later today.
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Yup, humming bird feeders are the bane of urban bee keepers. The stupid thing is that the red food die is bad for the birds and it's much better to give them clear sugar syrup.
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Hey litefoot :) Look what I have
I posted this about a week ago or so, LzyBkpr said you can rinse this syrup out of the frames. Think I'll be doing that over the weekend.
(https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs4.postimg.cc%2F5cqmxxfg9%2FDSC00348.jpg&hash=948c1a44255913acd3c7448a5b1bcc235258e60a) (http://postimg.cc/image/5cqmxxfg9/)
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If keeps actually knew how much soda pop, humming bird feed, sugar water etc was in there honey they would roll over dead. Especially if the supers are left on during a dearth and you are close to any of the mentioned. THe only thing is you can see the humming bird nectar cant see the others.;D
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Hi Riverrat! "THe only thing is you can see the humming bird nectar cant see the others.
How about grape soda, orange soda, strawberry soda ? :)
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Im going to say no unless they find a full can. Mostly what they bring in is what little is found in several different cans. With most being caramel color it would be rare to see anything else. Humming bird feeders will stand out since there is a continuous source that is being taken to the hive ;)
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Mkay, that makes sense :)
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There was a Chinese beekeeper that had hives in the roof of his house in down town Vancouver, and he would brag about how good of forage area he lived in and how good his bees were as he consistently would get honey crops of 450 to 500 lbs of extremely light colored honey. He was showing his hive to a fellow beekeeper and bragging about his good crops and the visiting beekeeper points at a building 7 blocks away and asks "You don't think that has any thing to do with your sweet white honey crops?" He was pointing at BC Sugar Refinery. The larges sugar refinery in Canada, in operation since 1890 and still producing sugar at the same site for the last 124 years.
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Snark! Too Funny, and disappointing as well :sad:
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Hey litefoot :) Look what I have
I posted this about a week ago or so, LzyBkpr said you can rinse this syrup out of the frames. Think I'll be doing that over the weekend.
(https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs4.postimg.cc%2F5cqmxxfg9%2FDSC00348.jpg&hash=948c1a44255913acd3c7448a5b1bcc235258e60a) (http://postimg.cc/image/5cqmxxfg9/)
Yep, Jen, that's what it looks like. I guess I'm re-hashing your post. I did do a seach for "red honey" and came up with nothing, although it was from my iPhone. I'm building my first all-medium box colonies, so the red stuff will be used for winter feed. Can't imagine what the cleansing flights might produce in the Spring. :D
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lite- "Can't imagine what the cleansing flights might produce in the Spring.
AahHhahahah! I never thought about that :D
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the wife got a phone call from family saying her father was in the hospital red from his cleansing break in the toilet. three days later A scope, tests, scans that reveals nothing. He remembers the ate pickled beets at both lunch and supper the day before.