> Previous to this I used commercially prepared icing sugar. I stopped > this having heard that icing sugar contained the anti-caking agent E341 - > rumours reaching me that this was harmful to bees, though no scientific > evidence was given to back this up. John, not sure what you have in Greece but here in Australia we use pure icing sugar. The one to avoid is icing mixture as this contains starch. We make all our queen candy with pure icing sugar and have no problems. Trevor Weatherhead AUSTRALIA *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm