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- From: annallys Goodwin-Landher <annallys AT hotmail.com>
- To: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>, Thomas Carson <thcarson AT gmail.com>, OCBA <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] Honey from lost colony
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:56:51 -0500
IMHO feeding bees honey, their natural food, makes more sense than feeding them a product laced with paraquat and other herbicides/pesticides and aluminum silicate or some other such flow agent. If organic sugars used then it has a higher molasses content so the whiter the organic sugar the better and it runs about 1.50 a pound unless bought at Costco.
It just makes sense to give the bees the best hand up possible, so I advocate for using the honey to feed the new package. Annallys 919 933-9109 annallys AT hotmail.com Four years after the bees are gone, humanity is gone. Albert Einstein Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:42:17 -0500 From: ra41717 AT gmail.com To: thcarson AT gmail.com; ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org Subject: Re: [ocba] Honey from lost colony Thomas,
Regardless of what you do with the honey, drawn comb is worth its weight in gold (well, maybe cheap gold), so your new package will be well ahead of the game in April. Honey sells for $10 a pound and cane sugar sells for 40 cents a pound. If there was enough to make it worthwhile, I would extract the honey for myself (that was the original point, right?) and generously feed sugar syrup to the new package when it arrives. The caveat to this is that if the "honey" is really just "sugar syrup honey" from fall feeding, I wouldn't want to eat it (it tastes like nothing), so I would save it for the bees. Randall Austin On 2/19/2014 6:54 PM, Thomas Carson wrote: CAKJwz8w+XMkLSkKHT-JuNYkGUgUw7vvFb7PtxCre4q5g9NgcZQ AT mail.gmail.com"> _________________________________________ ocba mailing list | North Carolina Beekeeping| http://www.theocba.org/ Manage Your Subscription: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ocba/ |
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[ocba] Honey from lost colony,
Thomas Carson, 02/19/2014
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Re: [ocba] Honey from lost colony,
Randall Austin, 02/19/2014
- Re: [ocba] Honey from lost colony, annallys Goodwin-Landher, 02/20/2014
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Re: [ocba] Honey from lost colony,
Randall Austin, 02/19/2014
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