Dusty Rhodes wrote: > 3. What type of sugar is best to feed bees? the best is fructose and glucose. So the bees don't have to spilt the sacarose in it > (correct me if I am wrong, but i think honey contains only about 1% maltose) Honey contains about 5 to 10 % of maltose it is not so sweet in tast for men, (they use it in laboratorium as foot in testcultures ) -- -------------------------------------------------------- Jan Tempelman / Ineke Drabbe | EMAIL:[log in to unmask] Sterremos 16 3069 AS Rotterdam, The Netherlands Tel/Fax (SOMETIMES) XX 31 (0)10-4569412 homepage webside: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/index2.html webside van het AmbrosiusGilde: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/ambro_index.html webside for NECTAR: http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/nectar_index.html with some pages in english on solitary bees. NEW PAGES ON THE FIGHT ON THE VARROA MITES. http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/dronemethod.html --------------------------------------------------------