Just had this posted on organic list in reply to what this paper means..............as never have seen it with honey by self..........but if mixed with syrups, and honey/syrup mixes could this be a cause of bees dying and beekeepers trying to figure out why. Especially, with hives on agric ranches/farms where salt blocks are used perhaps????? Just thinking.. any comments?
Dee A. Lusby
From: "nhfearme@gmail" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat Oct 17, 2009 3:15 pm
Subject: Re:[BEE-L] Russian paper
Found it. It has to do with feeding bees alternate food sources and that any
sodium chloride mixed in their food source can kill them.
http://www.beesource.com/resources/usda/considerations-in-selecting-sugars-for-f\
eeding-to-honey-bees/
"Sugar refuse such as mill sweepings or surplus candy sometimes furnishes an
inexpensive source of sucrose, but salt or flour in it may be harmful. Piskovoi
et al. (1964) found that common table salt, sodium chloride, in levels as low as
0.125% in sugar syrup, caused dysentery and mortality in caged bees. Bees in
overwintering colonies with honey stores containing 0.35 to 1.16% salt were
dying prematurely"
Piskovoi, F. R., V. A. Shibidko, and K. K. Borisov. 1964. (Poisoning bees with
common salt) (Rus) Pchelovostvo 84:32.
Nan
--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Lesli Sagan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Lesli Sagan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [BEE-L] Russian paper
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 6:35 AM
There's a slight typo: PchelovoDstvo .
I'll look for it. I can translate from Russian, if needed.
Lesli
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Juanse Barros <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> *Any one of you have acce*ss to this russian paper?
>
> *Piskovoi*, *F. R.*, *V. A. Shibidko, and K. K. Borisov*. *1964*.
> (Poisoning
> bees with common salt) (Rus) Pchelovostvo 84:32
>
> TIA
>
> PD: Hopefully translated to english or spanish.
> ...
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