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sandysman

sandysman

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I know this has been asked before but I can't find a thread so bear with me.
If I have a frame of oil seed rape in the brood body can the bees use it for winter feed when it granulates or not?
Andy
 
There is no OSR near me but the bees collect loads of ivy honey in the Autumn and that granulates like OSR the bees use it without problems. I just make sure that there is a water source close to the hives in the Spring.
 
sandysman said:
I know this has been asked before but I can't find a thread so bear with me.
If I have a frame of oil seed rape in the brood body can the bees use it for winter feed when it granulates or not?
Andy
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Uncap it and spray water onto crystals. Put in between larva frames. Bees will clean it.

If it is not granulated, extract it.
 
Finman said:
Uncap it and spray water onto crystals. Put in between larva frames. Bees will clean it. QUOTE]

Simples eh!! That way the risk of crystallistion contamination is reduced as the bees eat or use most if not all of it.
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osr

As far as I am aware, oil seed rape sets solid. It needs to be extracted. The bees can't use in the winter.
 
Duchy;341382[B said:
]As far as I am aware[/B], oil seed rape sets solid. It needs to be extracted. The bees can't use in the winter.
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I have 40 years experience about rape honey with 20 hives and I know what toi do.

But storing honey at all for winter makes no sense. Use sugar. It is as good as honey. Donate honey to unemployded families if you do not need money.

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