Gauthier Jr Calvin J wrote:

> I thought like you Al in that this may have been nature's way of
> providing me a way to winter over my hives.

OK for the South but a poor overwintering honey for the North and the
reason for many of my colony failures when I started keeping bees.

Lots on this in the archives.

Bill Truesdell
bath, Maine

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