>Anyway, I'm thinking it was the addition of lemon oil to the syrup that made the bees abscond
I've been feeding HBH to my packages since install. No problems with absconding. Initially I also added Thyme Oil for the first 2 feedings. Bees took to it well. One hive with dysentery at install cleared right up. Sent scraping to Randy. Should find out in the future if it was nosema.
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