At 07:14 PM 19/01/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Eric and All:
>
>Do you think open feeding encourages robbing, or keeps the foraging bees
>busy and so discourages it?
>
>Regards, Stan>
Hello Stan,
I don't think it encourages robbing. Is it really any different than a
honey flow? I have rarely seen colonies robbing others unless the colony
being robbed is extremely poor. In this case, perhaps the bees are doing me
a favour.
Eric
Eric Abell
Gibbons, Alberta Canada
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