>Re: honey solids.  There are mineral salts, indigestible carbohydrates, and
>some pollen grains.  Also, forager bees have a high turnover of the protein
>in their bodies (made up by feedings of jelly from nurse bees), so there are
>uric acid wastes (which should be pretty clear, based on the color of queen
>feces).

This is not something that one thinks about a lot normally.  I had somehow thought that bee feces were solid based on the little grey things found along with wax scales in the bottom of the cage package bees are shipped in.  Maybe they are not related?

Of course, we are all familiar with the 'yellow spot' phenomenon which occurs when beehives and parking lots or clotheslines are in close proximity (but which we insist has nothing to do with bees) and the large, brown oozing mess that comes out of bees and streaks the fron of hives in the late stages of dysentery, but what is the 'normal' state from healthy bees? 

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