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Re: Stores from hive with dysentery?
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Dick Allen <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 10 May 2003 13:27:56 -0400
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Todd writes:

>I placed some of these frames on a weak hive recently, and also gave them
the choice of sugar syrup in a division feeder just to see which the bees
prefer. The bees voted overwhelmingly for the honey.

How can that be? Studies have shown that bees prefer sugar to honey. Was it
Mark Twain who said something to the effect that there are lies, there are
damned lies, and then there are statistics? ....And of course there are
studies, too.

Regards,
Dick Allen

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