LISTSERV - BEE-L Archives - COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM

BEE-L Archives

Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology

BEE-L@COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM

	LISTSERV Archives
	BEE-L Home

	Log In
	Register

	Subscribe or Unsubscribe

	Search Archives

Options:	Use Monospaced Font Show Text Part by Default Condense Mail Headers
Message:	[<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic:	[<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author:	[<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Mime-Version:	1.0
Content-Type:	text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:54:42 -0500
Reply-To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:	Re: Honey vs HFCS (again)
Content-Transfer-Encoding:	quoted-printable
Message-ID:	<[log in to unmask]>
Sender:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
From:	Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]>
Parts/Attachments:	text/plain (13 lines)

> I think it highly improbable that we can't produce a nutritionally complete pollen substitute. There are two caveats. They are palatability and cost. 

And the third: the wisdom of stimulating the colonies at inappropriate times. Otis and Mattila suggested that pollen supplements in the fall could be deleterious. See

HEATHER R. MATTILA and GARD W. OTIS
Dwindling pollen resources trigger the transition to broodless populations of long-lived honeybees each autumn
Ecological Entomology Volume 32, Issue 5 Pages 437–582

             ***********************************************
The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned
LISTSERV(R) list management software.  For more information, go to:
http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html

ATOM RSS1 RSS2

COMMUNITY.LSOFT.COM