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Re: Icing on the Cake
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Peter Kevan <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 Nov 1993 10:51:19 -0400
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If memory serves, honeybees do not digest starch. This, cornstarch would
be added fibre to their diet and I would expect that it would be harmless.
Peter Kevan
 
On Sun, 28 Nov 1993, James D. Thomson wrote:
 
> I have no idea what confectioner's sugar will do for bees, but I can tell you
> that you will not be able to get it completely into solution.  There's starch
> in it as well as sucrose.  Can bee guts handle a little cornstarch?
> James Thomson

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