In a message dated 08/11/2015 22:44:44 GMT Standard Time,
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We know bees can't survive on canola honey due to being hard. Despite too
much canola honey stored in hives bees die from starvation.
Does that vary with the race of bee? Here in the UK the bees, Apis
mellifera mellifera, must have wintered largely on crystallised ivy honey since
we became an island and the ice retreated about 20,000 years ago.
Sugar for feeding arrived roughly around the time that imported strains of
bees did.
Chris
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