I have added terramycin to my spring feeding of sugar water for 20 years and
have not had any foul brood or problems with the bees.  (not counting the
mite problem).  The terramycin will cause the sugar water to turn very dark
brown after a while in the sugar water.
 
Richard Barnes
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At 04:25 PM 2/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I thought that terramycin was not good in sugar syrup, in fact, bad for the
>bees
>Walt in SC
>> If you're planning to feed Fumidil in sugar syrup, put the Terramycin in
>> there too. Just don't mix up too much at once, since it's unstable in
>> water. Also, you don't want to heat it (that is, don't mix it into hot
>> water); make the sugar syrup first and then add the Fumidil and
>Terramycin.
>> You'll find that the Fumidil takes much longer to dissolve than the
>> Terramycin.
>>
>> Conrad Sigona
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