>>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
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