Yoon said:

> I took down a feral hive...

> ...he had nightly sprayed the bees all sorts of chemicals
> imaginable: gasoline, paint thinner, insect spray--I just do
> not recall all the stuff he had used in the hope of eradicating
> the infestation.

> I was able to strain two gallons of honey, plus a quart and half.

And it all goes in sealed containers straight to the Haz-Mat
"collection day" point (any fire station can tell you where and when).

> I am willing to drain it into the septic if found polluted.

I would not even put it in my septic tank.
I want my septic tank bacteria to LIVE, although I must admit to
caring much less about them than my bees.  Perhaps this is why
there are more observation hives than observation septic tanks.

> How does one go about analyzing a sample?

Why waste $100 on a lab (or the time of the overworked Beltsville team)
to test only a few gallons of honey?  Scrap it.  Scrap any comb too.

You got paid, you got some bees.  That's enough.

While one can all be fairly certain that the person who hired you
got nowhere near the colony stores with his various attempts to
spray, why take chances?

                jim  (who was going to suggest burning it all,
                  but realized that honey plus gasoline
                  makes, ummm, a napalm-like gel...)

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