Originally Posted by
Emma
... There's a quite distinctive smell, too, which I also noticed from one of the city colonies last year. Odd, and a bit sour. Last year I indulged in a brief panic that it was some bee disease, but I rapidly concluded it was something they were foraging. I thought it was the propolis they were finding at that end of the year; I'm now wondering whether it's the smell of ivy honey. Maybe a comination of the two? Certainly wasn't disease: that colony have thrived relentlessly all year.
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