Honey for sale should only have floral or honey dew origin.  There are things we cannot control such as bees coming across a discarded bottle of sugar-laden Coke or other sweet human junk but a beekeeper should not extract & sell sugar honey.

If I can speculate that SOME beekeepers engage in this wrong practice, I will not buy honey from ANY beekeepers unless they can PROVE their honey does not have sugar syrup.

Bees do move their stores around in the hive as they expand their nest.  Nevertheless, no one should feed sugar syrup once the supers go on.  I do not believe that anyone who breaks this rule will extract the sugar honey to discard or feed to other colonies!

Be patient and draw your super frames on a strong honey flow.  You will get better drawn frames in no time.

Waldemar
Long Island, NY

PS.  If you state from the outset that some sugar honey is ok, then where do you draw the line at 1% or 99%?  You are going to turn honey customers off.


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3.  Feeding sugar with the INTENT to dilute or replace nectar-based honey
 certainly falls over the line of consumer deception, but ...

4.  Trace or insignificant amounts of sugar-based honey does not automatically
 spoil the whole batch.  (Please do not use the strawman that this argument
 means that trace amounts of miticides are therefore acceptable.  See 2 above -
 sugar is not toxic.)

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