Bob,
The detriment is in supporting lines of genetics that would otherwise have removed. Whether we agree on the detriment or benefit of feeding syrup is irrelevant to this point. Whether you feed honey, syrup or pollen substitute, no matter the source,if you feed bees that on their own cannot gather enough to feed themselves would not make the cut in the natural selection process, and so as keith says, are allowed to pollute the genetic pool.


Scot Mc Pherson
McPherson Family Honey Farms
Davenport, IA
Bradenton, FL

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