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- 11 and a few poly nucs
I went past a friend who’s into his 2nd year of beekeeping. He has just started extracting and was worried about some frames that had very runny honey. I tested them with my refractometer and some of his capped honey was reading as high 25% moisture content and it tasted pretty bland. It turned out that he had been emergency feeding syrup with a super still on his hive during a prolonged spell of poor weather. I suggested that might be the cause and he should keep it separate and feed it back to his bees.
This is nothing new for most of you out there, but it has got me thinking. Does anyone know the average water content of capped
sugar syrup?
This is nothing new for most of you out there, but it has got me thinking. Does anyone know the average water content of capped
sugar syrup?
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