Honey analysis

[Angry_Mob]

29 samples in mine.

 

[enrico]

15 most abundant taxa in the sample
Rubus
Bramble
Tropaeolum majus
Taraxacum officinale
Taraxacum mongolicum
Trifolium repens
White Clover
Taraxacum
Dandelion
Lythrum salicaria
Purple-loosestrife
Borago officinalis
Borage
Rubus silvaticus
Impatiens glandulifera
Indian Balsam
Scorzoneroides autumnalis
Autumn Hawkbit
Convolvulus arvensis
Field Bindweed
Pulicaria dysenterica
Common Fleabane
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Shepherd's-purse
Vicia cracca
Tufted Vetch
These were mine from my second batch.... Three lots of dandelion.
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[citrus]

missed a trick and only just registered for this year ... but did get the email saying to keep a sample safe for later on .


.. last year I got a very wide pollen distribution (which was nice) but was thinking maybe it would be good to get an early spring version in early May prepared to get an idea of the differences in my locality across a different timezone

 

[Erichalfbee]

This analysis of the analysis is worth reading

“A review of my honey analysis “

https://t.co/RjBHmgTJwW

 

[Beekeeper Brownie]

It's certainly interesting seeing what these samples 'contain' however I have my doubts as to how accurate they are. I've got Borage as my second most abundant species and I wasn't aware of any grown near the hives, certainly to make it the second most abundant species. What is an odd one is they have classified 5 different species of Bird's Foot Trefoil ranked 3rd - 7th most abundant species. One of which is an alpine species which I can't find any records of in the UK (only after a quick Google), let alone in Eastern England in a primarily arable environment.

 

[Amari]

What month of the year was that sampled, Brownie?

 

[Beekeeper Brownie]

25th August - so they would have had time to get a lot of the summer flowers for this area included.

 

[Levitt53]

Can someone post the link please. I keep meaning to do this so I'll check what it happening at the moment and bookmark the site for hopefully later in the season. Thanks.

 

[enrico]

Can someone post the link please. I keep meaning to do this so I'll check what it happening at the moment and bookmark the site for hopefully later in the season. Thanks.

https://honey-monitoring.ac.uk/
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[MikeWade]

With all that Turnip in the samples Baldrick will be happy.

 

[Erichalfbee]

But you have to tally the pollen in the sample with the pollen coefficient
Plants that produce lots of pollen are represented more than those producing little and large pollen grains are more effectively removed than small by the bees’ proventriculus
It explains why honey from Rosebay Willow Herb looks like it has come from Bramble if you look simply at the amount of pollen in the analysis

 

[user 819]

I have just registered my details hopefully for future analysis.