>.... a tablespoon of vinegar to a gallon of table sugar/ water mix........
helpful to the bees in digestion. .....comment on this practice?

This is from a post by Richard Bonney on Bee-L several years back:

"Many years ago a researcher found that if no natural nectar was coming in,
feeding syrup containing cream of tartar (or vinegar) caused dysentery,
shortening the lives of the bees to one third that of bees fed plain sugar
syrup."

The entire post can be read here:

http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9712D&L=bee-l&P=R1827

Regards,
Dick Allen

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