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General Q&A, Bee chat and only Bee chat please
 #7705  by Steve 1972
 10 Jun 2020, 17:36
NigelP wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 14:09
This honey had already been filtered through a pair of stainless steel filters identical to those Steve pictured above. This morning I did my final filtration through a 200 micron bucket filter before jarring
Usually not as much black stuff as this....But just shows that they still let a quite a bit of gunk through them. Its mainly very small wax particles. Usually almost all the retained wax particles are translucent ...(see the "white" dots). I know I blew and old super frame when extracting , so this is probably where the dark matter has appeared from.

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Could the the finer bits be pollen Nigel..
 #7706  by NigelP
 10 Jun 2020, 18:33
Could be Steve, there were probably some pollen filled cells in the supoer that exploded.
 #7709  by MickBBKA
 11 Jun 2020, 01:20
Honey, with added pollen is now selling at a premium....WHAT ARE YOU DOING !! LOL.