On 9 November 2015
​Chris
wrote:

>
> ​...
> Here in the UK the bees, Apis
> ​ ​
> mellifera mellifera, must have wintered largely on crystallised ivy honey
> since
> ​ ​
> we became an island and the ice retreated about 20,000 years ago.
> ​ ...​
>

Wouldn't the bees have over-wintered on honeys collected throughout the
whole of the summer​?  (There was nobody about to have removed that honey
from the nest.)  Also, don't they eat the most recently collected honey
(nectar) first - so perhaps before the ivy had time to crystallise?

Kitta

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