In ‘The Hive and the Honey Bee’, skim milk is listed as an ingredient for one recipe for making 
pollen substitute. Elsewhere in the same book, mention is made that lactose is bad for bees. 

Cream of tartar is often recommended for mixing with sugar candy. A recipe appearing in THATHB 
gives such a recipe. Diana Sammataro, in her book ‘The Beekeeper’s Handbook’, also gives 
directions for mixing cream of tartar in sugar candy. Yet just a few pages later, she writes that it 
may be bad for bees and it’s use is no longer recommended.  

It get’s a little confusing sometimes, doesn’t it? 

Regards,
Dick Allen

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