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Re:Beekeepers halt honey awards over 'huge fraud' in global ... by slt2021 on Saturday December 07, 2024 @07:20PM (#42353962)
agree, a lot of honey growers feed sugar syrup to the bees to maximize honey production.

it is sort of cheating

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Re:Beekeepers halt honey awards over 'huge fraud' in global ... by dmckeon on Saturday December 07, 2024 @08:18PM (#42354222)
Or to keep hives alive when nectar is scarce but colonies have not started to hibernate. Adulteration of produced honey with syrup would be 10x easier than feeding bee with syrup and then doing extraction from comb.
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Re:Beekeepers halt honey awards over 'huge fraud' in global ... by esperent on Sunday December 08, 2024 @12:08AM (#42355140)
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