Peter Borst writes:


> Bees have been fed cane sugar for over a hundred years with
> no apparent ill effect. Many formulae for pollen substitutes have been
> tried for about as long

Reply:
Yes there has been and written about by USDA in phamplet form too about how thing go down hill after a certain amount of time/usage compared to the real stuff. 

Also, it's only recently in past few years all honey and pollen has been removed or taken in such quantity as to make sugar and pollen substitutes main diet, instead of real food of honey and pollen the main diet, and that in today's world does seem to be changing things, for the way bees are being maintained with all the problems being talked about.

Dee A. Lusby


      

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