On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Peter L Borst wrote:
Many times I have seen dead hives with several boxes of honey not
being robbed. I have to put it down to lack of scouts. Maybe there are
times when there are simply fewer scouts out looking for dead hives. I
don't really know

One also have to consider that most if not all that honey is capped,
wax sealed, so if not under high sun, probably it doesn't smell like
honey.

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