> Dear Kamran Fakhimzadeh,
>
> I read your article "Potential of Superfine White Sugar Dusting as an
> Ecological Tool for the  Control of Varroasis in the Honey Bee" and have
> found the information useful. I have been using fine white sugar powder with
> added maltose to remove varroa in a small number of hives here in Vermont;
> the results so far resembled what you described.
>
> Sugar powder without additives compacts and clumps easily during transport
> and under common field conditions. I am writing to ask if you think fine
> white sugar powder with added maltose or 3% added cornstarch may be
> considered appropriate for dusting honey bee colonies.
>
> Thank you for your reply,
>  Jeff Cunningham, P.O. Box 368, Putney, VT 05346 US
>
Dear Jeff and all;

I have not worked with these substances. If the structure of sugar
is not very much changed by these additives, perhaps they function
in the same way as pure sugar does. I can forward this question to
my colleagues in Bee-L, since many beekeepers from the USA asked the
same question from me. I think,there should not be any problem if a
new package of pure powdery sugar opened right in the apiary.  Is the
pure powdery sugar (without major additives) available in the USA?
Best regards
Kamran


Dr. Kamran Fakhimzadeh
Department of Applied Biology
P. O. Box 27
00014- Universtity of Helsinki
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