I've been thinking about where chemicals could come from that get into hives.
Today as I was returning from lunch and pulled up to the Science Building
where my office is I saw a fair number of my Buckfast and small-cell bees
flying around.  It has frozen quite often in the past four weeks and there
are no nectar sources left to speak of. I followed the bees to the trash can
and looked in and on the bottom they were recovering the rest of the soda
from pop cans discarded by students.  What if there had been also a
discarded sulfathiazole can/bottle spilled there and mixed with the soda?
Wouldn't the bees also have taken that up.  Just wondering?
Ed Geels

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