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From: "Dee Lusby"
>Reply:
>Really? What percentage? No nutrition received from royal jelly or honey?
>How do you view royal jelly or honey >for the bees ongoing nutrition?
I will rephrase the statement slightly,- After all pollen is the source of
almost
all the beehives nutrition.
The bees can use their body reserves if there is no pollen coming in,
subsisting on honey. But before they can effectively work again they must
rebuild those reserves.
Royal jelly of course is produced in the hive, from food gathered from
outside the hive.
Geoff Manning
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