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Title: allright, who put the stink
Post by: duck on September 19, 2012, 10:09:02 pm: in my beehives? smells like some serious funk is goin on in there! wow
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: buzzbee on September 19, 2012, 10:11:40 pm: It was Rod,
Mr. Gold N Rod.
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: duck on September 20, 2012, 12:40:57 am: it is just starting here in se texas, i smeelll it.
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: jim massi on September 20, 2012, 04:02:26 am: i can smell it soon as i get close to my hives. they have been packing it in steady
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: 2Sox on September 20, 2012, 06:05:07 pm: Maybe it's my sense of smell but my bees are bringing it godenrod and aster nectar by the bucket right now and it just smells like.......honey. Somebody enlighten me, please
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: GLOCK on September 20, 2012, 07:47:17 pm: Sadly i think we are coming to the end makes me sad.
But sure love the smell of GOLDEN ROD .
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: 2Sox on September 20, 2012, 08:37:04 pm: Up here in the Catskill Mountains, we're right in the middle of it.
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: luvin honey on September 21, 2012, 04:59:16 pm: Quote from: 2Sox on September 20, 2012, 06:05:07 pm
Maybe it's my sense of smell but my bees are bringing it godenrod and aster nectar by the bucket right now and it just smells like.......honey. Somebody enlighten me, please
To my nose, it reeks like stinky socks. To most other people, too.
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: oblib on September 21, 2012, 05:49:39 pm: My 2 year old grand-daughter make me take her out to the apiary twice a day to see them "fly and fly and fly"
Today she noticed the the goldenrod smell and exclaimed "HONEY I smell honey, the bees are making honey" over and over lol.
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: JP on September 21, 2012, 10:51:22 pm: The golden rain trees are finally in bloom now and I'm sure our goldenrod flow is not far behind. Last legitimate flows of the year for us!

...JP
Title: Re: allright, who put the stink
Post by: greenbtree on September 22, 2012, 12:00:11 am: 2 sox, maybe you are catching the smell when it is almost ripened? It doesn't smell like dirty socks once it is done. I love goldenrod honey.

JC