Pollen is the primary nutritive source for larvae, sugar is the primary
nutritive source for adult bees. However, some pollen is digested by the
bees, and honey is an ingredient of the bread given to larvae. And, like
I asked Bob a few weeks ago, how would you like living on potatoes and
beans an your sole food? You won't be very healthy for very long.

Plants need only hydration and light to live, but they don't do well
except for some of the very simple plants like algae which also DO show
much improvement with vitamins. Plants need iron even though its not a
primary food source.

Bees have their own trace requirements, like we need iodine, and plants
need iron...are these well known? No, unless you happen to be a doctor
or botonist OR if you are concerned about your own health, the ecology,
environment and study these things.

No living things in nature are provided with purity of any sort, we
evolved all of us over millions and millions of years with factors and
traces and those factors and traces have become part of our
requirements, same with the bees, same with the trees, same with us.

--
Scot McPherson
The McPherson Family Honey Farms
Davenport, Iowa USA

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