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Nectar and supplemental feeding
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Gerald Herrin <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 13 May 2002 06:21:56 -0500
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Do honeybees demonstrate a decided preference for natural sources
(nectar) of glucose rather than sugar water feedings if given equal
access to the food supplies? I guess that I am asking if a newly hived
package of bees will ignore sugar water when, for example, white clover
is blooming.
Thanks.

Gerald


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