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Crystallized honey

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 9:21 pm
by tallen44us
Last fall I purchased 10 frames of honey from another beekeeper. It turns out that a lot of the honey left is crystallized. Can the bees process the crystallized honey? What do I need to do?

Re: Crystallized honey

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 10:00 pm
by Wally
Place it on the hive. They will raise the temp enough to liquify it.

PS. Welcome to the forum.

Re: Crystallized honey

Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 10:03 pm
by mike91553
I think they will eat it when we have a nectar shortage but right now my bees won't even clean out an empty honey bucket. Last summer I put some supers back on that had crystallized honey and they finally used it up but were slow to do it.