Peter Edwards said:

Two points:
First, how will you stop these 'dusts' from contaminating your honey.
Dust
will stick to any honey in open cells and we know that honey is moved
from
brood chamber to supers.  Even icing sugar contains anti-caking agents.
As
far as I can see, powdered plain sugar would be the least unacceptable
dust.

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A third point:
The anti-caking agent is starch. A bee does not have the digestive
system to handle starches. They can be deadly to the bee.

 Our local bulk store has finely powdered dextrose. I have not done any
research into using that instead of the more commonly available powdered
sugar (with starch).

Tom
Shippensburg, Pa



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