when we looked into Jamiaca's hive on 9/1 we found the entire third deep filled with this reddish nectar. at the time, we worried that there might be something wrong with this nectar (usually nectar is clear or yellowish). peggy informed us that our bees have been busy harvesting nectar from the knotweed plant. this tall bush is actually an invasive type of bamboo from japan.
apparently, knotweed nectar makes a delicious honey similar to buckwheat honey. we are very lucky that they have this autumn nectar source in our neighborhood. unfortunately, our bees are still not storing anything in their honey supers because the frames are not drawn out with comb. so only the bees themselves will enjoy delicious honey all winter, not us. we will need to sort out our honey super disfunction next year. we think we have a plan.
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