This posting made me remember someone mentioning here that flouride shortens the lifespan of honeybees.  I use village water which is slightly chlorinated and has fluoride added to it.  I understand that chlorine is not bad for bees but can someone point to references on the influence of fluoride on bees?

Thank you.

Waldemar
Long Island, NY

PS.  It would be a bit inconvenient but I could collect rain water.



allen dick wrote:

> At any rate, just because something is written somewhere does not make
> it true, any more than my writing that it is not true makes it not true.

Nick Calderone. I trust what he writes. (The Bee Files, "Stress" vol
 128
July 1999)

> Does anyone know for sure under what conditions, if any, sugar will
> invert with heat in water, without the aid of other agents or cataysts?
>

Interesting that invert sugar in solution is golden in color so that may
be what happened. Inversion does require acid but that is not too hard
to come by since most water supplies, especially rural, are not neutral.

Ran a quick test on our tap water and it is acidic. So unless I
neutralize my water, if I  boil a sugar solution, I will get inversion.
which explains the golden color I also got way back when.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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