honey cappings.

[biglongdarren]

is the colour of sugar syrup honey cappings and floral honey cappings different?
Darren.

 

[VEG]

Nope its the colour of what is under them that is different

 

[Queens59]

I thought I had extracted overwintered sugar syrup...until we tasted it! The most wonderful floral overtones...tasty and fantastic! 2 other frames still tasted great, but the floral flavours were quite different, as were the colours.

 

[MuswellMetro]

is the colour of sugar syrup honey cappings and floral honey cappings different?
Darren.

only in that the darker the capping are then the older they are, as they have been trampled on by more bees

 

[biglongdarren]

if i fed them sugar syrup earlier in the year and they stored it in the brood box,will they now moved that sugar syrup honey up into the super ?

 

[Teemore]

Darren, potentially they will use up the syrup when drawing out a super of foundation or you could pull a frame of sealed stores from the BB and keep it safe for feeding a nuc at a later date. On Sunday Mr Thompsons recommendation was that two frames of stores are sufficient at this time of year. Has he called with you to find and mark that queen yet?

 

[Scutellator]

is the colour of sugar syrup honey cappings and floral honey cappings different?
Darren.

Yes, it could be different. When fed sugar syrup the new combs (and cappings) are white. When rape oil seed is blossoming the cappings are white, from tilia trees (lime) - the cappings are very white, but when the bees are gathering crop from the sunflower - the new wax is yellow (probably having some polen in it)