Hello All

Robin makes good points. May I add my small contribution to this debate.

Leave the bees one super of honey rather than feeding them syrup. This will
IMHO ensure that the bees are getting a food which contains the enzymes
which they have put into the honey rather than the syrup which we otherwise
feed them. Just put the super under the brood chamber separated from the
brood chamber by a queen excluder, and the bees who abhor a food source
under the brood chamber, will remove the stores to the brood chamber.

I can hear the protests of the beekeepers who are appalled at this loss of
some of their crop. But think about  it!

Sincerely
Tom Barrett
Dublin
Ireland

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