I got some interesting news from a friend who has a couple of my hives on her land. The mid-summer dearth has arrived and the bees are finding other sources of sugar for their hive as the flowers become fewer and farther away.
There are many grapes planted a short distance from the hives and the bees have been spotted collecting grape juice and taking it back to their hive! Birds peck holes in the grapes and this gives the bees access to the juice inside. I know that bees will collect most anything sweet when flowers aren't available but this will be the first honey I've dealt with that is from a fruit and not a flower.
If I'm lucky the honey will be a very odd color, in some areas bees will produce blue honey from local berries.
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