Karen D. Oland : "What is "best" for bees and what is "required" are not
always the same".

Karen, let's stick to that one.  You have given good reason why your bees
were starving and surely we have all agreed many times that bees have to be
fed in an emergency.  The point that should interest us is 'what does that
do to the bees?  How does bee biology respond when bees are given an
artificial feed?  Yes, it has to be done, YES< YES < YES.  But what follows?
What are the risks?  Even, could artificial feeds result in a colony having
a weak immune system and be prone to virus attack - which is where we
started - and where I still hope something useful may emerge.

Robin Dartington
who writes on Chistine Gray's computer

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