In a message dated 4/7/2010 10:17:05 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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The bees are dying and not taking feed.
Drenching will NOT kill healthy bees.
Not that a commercial beek will see. In our labs, when conducting cage
trials, it became abundantly apparent that whenever the barometric pressure
took a big swing (which happens in our mountains) the feeders sprayed the
bees with sugar syrup. Syrup coated bees, even in cages with large numbers of
bees, often die - in fact the loss of bees to syrup spritzing was often
greater than the pesticide or pollutant effect.
So, I don't spray packages with sugar water - plain water works fine, and I
don't drench bees.
Jerry
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