Janet Montgomery:
        It has been my experience that whenever I have crystalized honey or
equipment with honey on it,or old comb with honey in it, I just leave it in
the yard. The bees will clean it up in no time. Don't let the honey pool up
or you will kill a lot of bees by drowning or suffication. Course saw dust
or a paper towel floating keeps the bees from getting their legs stuck in
the honey.  You can also place the frames and hive body back on a colony
for the bees to clean up, however they may start to refill those empty
cells with fall aster and goldenrod or sugar syrup if your feeding them.
There should also be a water source close by for them to reconstitute the
crystal.
George from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
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