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Quality honey means honey that never has more than an 18% moisture level. In order to maintain this level, the honey must be harvested at the right time and extracted quickly in order to preserve its taste and quality.
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KillerBees Honey is one of six North Carolina apiaries that is participating in the National Honey Bee Survey with the USDA and the University of Maryland as part of a nationwide study to document bee diseases and parasites.
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During the height of the Zika scare last summer, officials of Dorchester County in South Carolina used aerial spraying to combat the Zika virus-carrying mosquito. The unintended consequence of deploying the insecticide Naled during daylight hours resulted in the death of millions of bees and literally wiped out entire apiaries.
When we received the test results back for our 2017 Sourwood Honey, we were amazed to discover that we had 91% and 93% pure Sourwood Honey on our hands.
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Our 2017 Spring honey harvest yielded nectar from the rare chinquapin (aka chinkapin) or American chestnut tree. The Chestnut Blight of 1909 wiped out almost all the trees in North America - except for a stand in the woods that our bees managed to find.
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