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WHITE HONEY [7 records]

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Record 1 2018-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Beekeeping
  • Sugar Industry
  • Regulations and Standards (Food)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
  • Réglementation et normalisation (Alimentation)

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Beekeeping
  • Sugar Industry
CONT

... flower honey is a white, greenish yellow or brownish coloured thick, transparent liquid obtained from nectars of acacia, sweet and white clovers, alfalfa, rape, buckwheat, etc. Flower honey has a characteristic sweet and highly aromatic flavour which is dependent on the flavour of the substances in the nectar collected by the bees.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
CONT

Le miel de fleurs est récolté [...] sur toutes les fleurs visitées par les abeilles : tournesol, ronce, châtaignier, merisier, pissenlit, aubépine [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Cría de abejas
  • Industria azucarera
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Record 3 2011-12-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Diseases
  • Beekeeping
CONT

Chalkbrood is easily identified by the hard shrunken chalklike mummies that are produced from infected larvae. It can be white, grey or a combination of white and grey. [It] is a fungal disease that affects all honey bee brood. It is caused by Ascosphaera apis. Honey bee larvae ingest the spores of Ascosphaera apis during feeding.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des animaux
  • Élevage des abeilles
DEF

Maladie fongique, causée par Ascosphaera apis, qui attaque le couvain des abeilles en parasitant et en tuant les larves.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de los animales
  • Cría de abejas
DEF

Micosis invasiva producida por el hongo Ascosphaera apis, que afecta exclusivamente a larvas en desarrollo.

CONT

Ascosferosis o cría yesificada. [...] La infección se produce cuando las larvas ingieren alimento contaminado con esporas del hongo. Estas esporas germinan en el intestino y comienzan a crecer, invaden los tejidos, hasta emerger a la superficie de la larva y recubrirlas totalmente. En principio, las larvas muertas presentan un aspecto algodonoso (blanco o negro) y luego se desecan y momifican.

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Record 4 2007-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sugar Industry
CONT

According to the Jefferson County Beekeepers Association local honey is produced from bees that gather pollen from well over 100 flowers, thus it is called wildflower honey. From season to season, established hives will give white/clear to dark amber honey, depending on the flow of flower pollen and the weather.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
CONT

Le miel de miellat du maquis : C'est un miel ambré à ambré foncé, chaleureux, persistant et long en bouche, de forte intensité aromatique, au goût malté et généreux récolté sur les coteaux forestiers de la Balagne au mois de juin.

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
CONT

Alfalfa honey is white or extra-light amber and has low moisture content. It is considered a great table honey and is often blended with other honey varieties. Alfalfa blooms throughout the summer as it may be cut several times for hay.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
CONT

Le miel de luzerne a des couleurs variées, incolore à ambrée à consistance de crème, épaisse en cristallisant, contient 36,8 % de glucose, 40,24 % de lévulose. Un hectare de luzerne produit 380 kg de miel.

Spanish

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Record 6 2003-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Beekeeping
  • Sugar Industry
DEF

A sweet viscid fluid, of various shades from nearly white to deep golden, being the nectar of flowers collected and worked up for food by certain insects, esp. the honey-bee.

PHR

Honey of borax.

PHR

Honey-heavy, honey-laden.

PHR

Honey bike, brake, -cake, colour, -crock, -cup, drink, -harvest, -knife, -mead, -pore, -scale, -shop, -time, wine.

PHR

Honey-coloured, -hearted, -lipped, -loaded, -steeped, -mouthed, -stored, -wooled.

PHR

Honey agaric, ant, -apple, -baby, -badger, -bag, -balm, banana, -basket, -bearer, -beer, -berry, -blob, -bloom, -bottle, -bread, -bucket, -bun, -bunch, -cell, -cherry, chile, -creeper, -dresser, -extractor, -fall, -farmer, -flow, -fly, fungus, -garlic, -gate, -gatherer, -gilding, -gland, -gold, -holder, -hunter, -kite, -locust, -lotus, -maker, -man, -mark, -meal, -mesquit, -moth, -mouse, mushroom, -pear, -people, -plant, -pod, possum, -rore, -soap, -sop, -spot, -stalks, -stomach, -sucker, -tear, -tube, -ware, -water, -week, -wood, -words, -worker.

PHR

Honey-bearing, -dropping, -eating, -flowing, -gathering, -making, -secreting, -storing, -yielding.

PHR

Borax, clover, corn, heather, stone, wood honey.

PHR

Clarified honey.

PHR

Live, unripe, virgin, white, wild honey.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
DEF

Substance sirupeuse et sucrée, de couleur ambrée, que les abeilles élaborent dans leur jabot avec le nectar des fleurs ou d'autres matières végétales, et qu'elles dégorgent dans des alvéoles de cire pour la nourriture de leur communauté.

CONT

Les abeilles vont chercher le nectar des fleurs pour le convertir en miel.

PHR

Fourmi, mouche à miel.

PHR

Bonbon, préparation pharmaceutique au miel.

PHR

Couleur, gâteau, goût, jatte, parfum, pot de miel.

PHR

Douceur, production du miel.

PHR

Miel rosat, violat.

PHR

Miel de Narbonne, du Gâtinais; miel des fleurs.

PHR

Sentir le miel; séparer le miel de la cire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
  • Cría de abejas
  • Industria azucarera
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Record 7 1997-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation

Spanish

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