>>so that any syrup honey made by the bees is either used for 
brood/hive feed or is capped and so there is no danger of the honey 
being contaminated by what was fed earlier.

Mike, while I agree with most of what you've said, I must point out 
that bees will uncap cured sugar syrup and move it right up into the 
supers as they expand the broodnest.  And they will do it very 
quickly.

One can't assume they will use it exclusively for brood-rearing at 
all.  In fact, bees will first use incoming nectar to feed the brood 
and move the already cured honey/syrup up into the supers above the 
brood nest.  Why should they dilute the cured stuff and then 
evaporate the incoming nectar?  It would not make sense - it would be 
extra, unnecessary work for the bees.

I think it's good to stimulate brood rearing but not with the vast 
amounts of of sugar syrup some folks use.  You should always adjust 
the amount of feed to the number of covering bees.

Waldemar
Long Island, NY

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