Hello Peter,

 

>>>>No.  In a strong flow more bees are recruited to foraging, leaving a
smaller workforce to tend to the larvae.  The larvae then get less food and
the symptoms of EFB begin to show.  After a flow, the larvae are better fed
and more survive without EFB symptoms.<<<<

 

I feel that this needs a challenge. Zack Huang isolated ethyl oleate as a
substance fed to the younger bees by the foragers. It keeps them from
becoming foragers. If all the delicate systems within a hive were so easily
disrupted by a honey flow..I doubt that it could survive.  After all, a
honey flow is what it's all about for the bees. And the larva aren't
starving, they are dying of a pathogen. I'm not saying nutrition isn't
involved.

 

Dick Marron

 


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