>>I had always assumed that the bees would clean all that out before storing spring honey... Perhaps the bees dissolve the crystals from aster honey in fresh spring nectar as way of reducing the nectar's water content in the honey ripening process? This would let them take care of 2 issues in one step. Waldemar ****************************************************** * Full guidelines for BEE-L posting are at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm * ******************************************************