> > >All I know is that my bees generally [last year was an exception] winter > quite well on my formula and come through strong in the spring. > And how did your control group fare? I'm not doubting a potential benefit from vitamin supplementation. But the only result that you can report from your "experiment" if it didn't include a control group is that the addition of the vitamins did not cause your colonies to die. So the jury's still out on crazy; but "scientific" requires a control group. -- Randy Oliver Grass Valley, CA www.ScientificBeekeeping.com *********************************************** 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