After looking through other simular questions, it looks like a ton of people don't even think wasps make honey...
I managed to get ahold of a fresh section of a yellow jacket hive, and found honey inside. Didn't taste it cause...Well..Eww. But I smelled the stickey yellow stuff in the hives by digging it out, and it smells just like honey.
Why don't we harvest their honey?
Also, as aggresive as wasps are, it was pretty intersting to know that I could calm them down and they let their guard down ALOT when I fed a colony the honey in a comb. They had 5 wasps on guard, as I had ticked them off pretty bad earlier that day. But when I put a drop of the honey in front of each one of them, they were too busy sucking it down to notice me, letting me get close enough to even touch them with my bare hand. (just barely though) Maybe it's just the time of the year mellowing them out.
But anyway, yeah. Smells like honey...Why don't we use it?
2006-09-19
16:45:57
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Steph
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