Stan wrote: "I also do not understand why a hardened
sugar product makes excellent winter feed, when
granulated honey or syrup does not."

In regards to granulated sugar not being good winter
feed, I have heard of beekeepers pouring granulated
sugar on the inner covers of hives as a late winter
feed.  Evidently the moisture of the colony
respiration travels up through the inner cover hole
and liquifies the granulated sugar so that the bees
have access to a syrup from the granulated sugar.  The
rest of you, am I wrong in this?

Mike



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