In a message dated 4/7/2010 10:17:05 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
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The bees  are dying and not taking feed.
Drenching will NOT kill healthy  bees.


Not that a commercial beek will see.  In our labs, when conducting  cage 
trials, it became abundantly apparent that whenever the barometric pressure  
took a big swing (which happens in our mountains) the feeders sprayed the 
bees  with sugar syrup.  Syrup coated bees, even in cages with large numbers of 
 bees, often die - in fact the loss of bees to syrup spritzing was often 
greater  than the pesticide or pollutant effect.
 
So, I don't spray packages with sugar water - plain water works fine, and I 
 don't drench bees.
 
Jerry

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