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> As for feeding anything other then
>pure sugar it just is not a good practice. One year when the price of sugar
>went sky high I purchased several car loads of honey to feed bees. I was
>very surprised when they did no better on the honey then on sugar syrup. In
>fact I was downright disappointed because I had always thought there much
>be some magic in honey that would make it better bee feed then the honey
>substitutes, what a bummer....
>
>ttul, the OLd Drone
>Los Banos, Ca
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>http://209.76.50.54
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I read an article somewhere last year that advanced the theory that bees
should be wintered on honey that they made from sugar syrup or corn syrup.
The author's reasoning was that honey contains a lot of indigestible solids
and sugar corn syrup do not.  This requires fewer cleansing flights in
winter since the syrups are essentially pure energy to the bees.
Frank Humphrey
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