On 1 Aug 2003 at 18:23, Christine Gray wrote:

> Has the colony been given sugar feeds which are apparently
> common practice in USA?  If so, the larvae will have been fed a
> deficient
> diet

   Eyes glazed and continuing to chant the mantra, despite
hundreds of accumulated years of observations by many of the
best beekeepers on this list, that just exactly the opposite is true,
Christine expects to get a following of true believers on the list.

   Wonder how folks can get a strange idea stuck, no matter what.
Every year I kept bees, I increased in my estimation of the value of
feeding sugar at the right time. Well fed bees are happy and
healthy bees.

   I can't help but think of the old beekeeper who thought that
drones were "bad," so he sat by his hives though the day and
stabbed the drones with toothpicks as fast as he could.

   It is an important lesson for new users of the Internet to consider
all posted ideas tentative, until one has watched to see which
posters regularly know of which they speak, and which posters
determinedly hold to a belief despite all evidence to the contra
ry.

  Anyway I wish to add my voice in protest - that I do not find this
quote to be true at all.

Dave Green  SC  USA
The Pollination Home Page: http://pollinator.com   (still down, but
expected back up soon -- anyone who wants to do a study of web
hosting ripoffs, run a Google search for Feature Price and Atlantic
Net.)

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