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Central Florida here. I had a hive that in Jan 23 I treated with Apivar. In the spring it built up to a double deep before I put honey supers on. Fast forward to Nov 23 and the colony ended up absconding the hive, which was still a double deep at the time. I extracted what honey was in the hive (prob 30-40 lbs, mostly wildflower with some Brazilian pepper in the top box). Prob over half of the honey was from the bottom box, which was there when I treated with Apivar in Jan. I know you're not supposed to consume honey that was in the hive with apivar, but I was curious if anyone knows if there's a period of time that the apivar might degrade or breakdown to where it would be fine to consume the honey? I'm not selling it, and I figured I'd most likely have to dump it or feed it back to the bees, but it sucks because it's some pretty good looking honey, especially in a year where I didn't get hardly any wildflower due to the crazy wet spring we had.
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