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excerpting from the paper I cited:
Our data suggest that supplemental feeding of honeybee colonies in the fall could make the colonies produce more adult bees for package-bee production in spring.
Spring feeding, however, is less efficient in priming the adult bees for brood provisioning due either to lower amounts of nutrient stored in their fat bodies, or insufficient time for such physiological changes.
Sugar feeding alone could not achieve the same physiological effect on bees as protein feeding; thus, lower bee populations and lower net gain were obtained by colonies receiving sugar syrup only.
This analysis provides further strong evidence to the beekeepers that stimulative feeding should be done in the fall with protein, not with sugar in the spring, as has been practiced traditionally.
PENG, MARSTON, & KAFTANOGLU
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