I was advised never to feed honey from other hives
(including store-bought honey) back to colonies because it
can introduce American Foulbrood spores to your colony. I
don't know how likely this actually is, but considering the

possible consequences, I have decided not to do it.

Reply:
This has been gone over and over. Honey fed that the bees
digest does not cause foul brood in itself for it is
contained in the honey and then digested in the gut of the
honeybee. HOney bought in stores can be fed and I have
never seen a case of anyone doing so get their healthy
hives sick.

It is the robbing out of infected colonies where spores get
on the bodies of the bees that then gets into cells of
workerbrood that causes the problem.

respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/



 
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