Allen wrote: "Maybe I am missing something, but what is honey doing up there anyhow? If there is honey in the supers, any rational beekeeper in our country is going to take it off, not play with it. Or???" I am looking forward to harvesting a honey crop in a few weeks time when the weather is a bit warmer and there is some early forage available for the bees. This will be from my TBH on an organic permacultural site and it will be all the bees' own work with no possibility of contamination from added sugar. My harvest will be the honey that has been demonstrated to be surplus to the bees' own requirements. I did take a little a couple of months ago, as a visiting Honey Queen from Ireland dug a finger in and declared it to be the best honey she had every tasted! She demanded a sample to take back with her to put under the microscope, but I suspect it has all been eaten by now. Chris *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm