> Bees can separate solid particles from dissolved sugar with the
proventriculus.  If they have enough water to dissolve the sugar.

That is absolutelly correct ! (I do not want to use the word right, I tend
to confuse it with write ;).

Now the questions that Peter Lyon Detchon  placed in me mind in his recent
visit to Chile are:

Would the Nosema or AFB spores be small enough for the "best" proventriculus
to not let them pass to the ventriculus, thus keeping them in the honey
crop?
Is pollen size "much" bigger than the nosema/AFB spores?
Would the "honey stopper" help in the prevention of nosemosis and AFB?


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