Why is raw honey from Costco twice as expensive as Filtered ?

[E. Norma Snockers]

Maybe you should filter the pesticides?

[0ren]

Just take some Metformin...you'll bee fine!

[Muggles]

I got a sting from a wasp that felt like I had been shot. After that I've been a bit jumpy around insects that sting.

[Diesel]

Terry,

I'm wondering something about bees. I'm going to take a 2x4 and use a hole cutter to cut holes the size of a mason jar lid. I intend to place the mason jars inside these holes, upside down of course in an effort to see if honey bees will take interest and build a cone. Is this feasable, or, am I essentially wasting my time? If I am wasting my time, do you have any suggestions for how I might accomplish the goal?

Like CRNG, I'm a city boy and know little about nature or things related to it. Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions/advice you're willing to offer.

[Diesel]

We have something in common then. :) I also greatly enjoy real molasses. From Maple trees. A friend gave me a mason jar full of Tennessee molasses, but, it didn't come from a Maple tree. They swear I won't notice any difference (I haven't tried any of it yet), but, I suspect I will; considering how much and how often I gorged myself on it growing up. I actually tapped Maple trees when I was a teenager to obtain what would become Molasses from the trees, but, I'm completely lost as to how they make Molasses here without the tree. Culture shock you might say is an under statement in this case. I've been down here for a long time now, but, I still don't understand some things about the south.

[sugar]

Im goona eat fructose/sugar/refined carbs right up until the day they amputate my gangrene infected arms.

[Terry Coombs]

A mason jar is way too small for bees to make a colony , they like a bit larger space . Bees don't usually make cones , those are wasps , and most people don't want them around . Now if you hung a box about 15 x 20 x 20 up in a tree and baited it with a q-tip dipped in lemon grass oil inside a baggie , a feral or swarm colony might take interest . Leave a

3/4" hole for an entrance somewhere near the bottom .

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[Terry Coombs]

I think you might have maple syrup confused with molasses . Maple syrup is made by boiling the excess water out of the sap of the maple tree , molasses is made from the sorghum plant . Two entirely different things ...

What part of the south do you live in ?

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[Frank]

I carry benadryl pills in the car and know a woman that had to carry epinephrine, Epi Pen, like injections.

Years ago, I was a couple of miles from home on my bicycle and something flew in my mouth and stung tongue and lip. I was worried my tongue could swell and choke me. It did not but lip was swollen for a few days. Epinephrine can help with this.

Since my hand swelling incident, I was stung on the ankle cutting the grass, took benadryl, ankle swelled somewhat but nowhere near like my hand and trip to doctor was not needed.

[Terry Coombs]

You get used to it ... some develop a sensitivity , others an immunity . I caught one sting on my forearm yesterday , burned for about a minute then just nothing . I'm hoping that the rain lets me pull the 2 medium boxes today for extraction . I was putting "escape boards" on the hives to get the bees out of the supers (boxes with frames for honey storage) I plan to harvest today . I won't get much from #2 hive , that's the one that I've been using for a donor to start new colonies this year . Next year I'll probably pull from #1 for new colonies ... "You can make bees or you can make honey" .

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[Ed Pawlowski]

I never herd of maple syrup referred to as molasses. One is made from the sap of the maple tree, the other comes from sugar cane. Different thing with different flavores.

I even looked it up to see if the terms were interchangeable.

[Muggles]

When I got stung by that wasp, I didn't have an allergic reaction to it. Just minor swelling at the spot, but the pain was like a 9 on a scale of 10.

[Muggles]

How do you keep from shouting "OUCH" or jumping and scaring the bees?

Do they eventually recognize you as being part of their environment, as in, a friendly?

[clare]

Actually MOST molasses isa byproduct of cane sugar production.d

[Diesel]

Thanks Terry!

[Diesel]

Hmm. It's possible. It's been a long time since I've done that. I'm in TN...

[Frank]

Reading this, where does Jack Daniels get it's wood?

Jack Daniel's is not a bourbon - it's a Tennessee Whiskey. Jack Daniel's is dripped slowly - drop-by-drop - through ten feet of firmly packed charcoal (made from hard sugar maple) before going into new charred oak barrels for maturing.

[Terry Coombs]

I don't know ... I drink Evan Williams Kentucky Straight Sour Mash Bourbon Whiskey . Straight . Smewwwwth ...

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[Frank]

It's aged in oak barrels but maybe not made from over 51% corn. They claim the sugar maple charcoal filtration but apparently sugar maple trees come from New England. From Wiki:

The Federal Standards of Identity for Distilled Spirits (27 C.F.R. 5) state that bourbon made for U.S. consumption[18] must be:

Produced in the United States[19] Made from a grain mixture that is at least 51% corn[20] Aged in new, charred oak containers[20] Distilled to no more than 160 (U.S.) proof (80% alcohol by volume)[20] Entered into the barrel for aging at no more than 125 proof (62.5% alcohol by volume)[20] Bottled (like other whiskeys) at 80 proof or more (40% alcohol by volume)[21]

I don't drink much hard stuff and prefer Scotch whiskey made from barley.

[Frank]

Maple syrup contains sucrose same as molasses as far as actual sweetener goes. Invert sucrose, a mixture of glucose and fructose essentially the same sugars as honey. All these things are related but the goodies in them account for the different taste.