Layne Westover wrote:
> This reminds me
> that, as I recall, cane sugar is good for bees and
> beet sugar is not, for some reason. Make sure
> you use cane sugar. Someone else probably
> knows what is in beet sugar that makes it bad
> for bees. (It's probably in the archives).
Beet sugar has a higher percentage of ash than cane sugar, so you have
the problem of getting rid of solids. As Layne noted, beet sugar is not
a good bee feed. Raw beet sugar is deadly.
Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine
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