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Jerry wrote:
<'Its the - don't feed them honey- part that I have a hard time
accepting.>
Chris <Maybe the unstated point was that you shouldn't feed honey from
elsewhere as it might contain AFB spores>.
I agree, but in the cases I was quoting, the Europeans argued that a
beekeeper should not feed his own bees the honey that they gathered. Many of
our larger operations hold some supers of honey back from extraction, in
case we get a warm winter and the bees need more food.
And yes, some honey's can have harmful phytochemicals, and some have
industrial pollutants (something the bees obviously only began to really
experience when the industrial revolutions really took hold) and some just may
have traces of pesticides.
The point I was trying to make was that according to these 'specialists',
syrup was bad
sugar was bad
honey was bad
only fondant was good for feeding bees.
If given a choice and I have honey from our bees, I'm going to feed them
it. I wouldn't buy someone else's barrel of honey and feed it for the
reason Chris makes.
Jerry
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