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  • From: cpearce AT mycosynthetix.com
  • To: "Jeff Bollinger" <jeff.bollinger AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: OCBA <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] honey vs. syrup
  • Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:41:22 -0500 (EST)


Why is Food Lion sugar crappy? I think it's 100% sucrose. I get mine from
Walmart - cane sugar in a 20 lb bag.

Cedric.


>
> I've been feeding our bees heavily over the last several weeks and its
> getting expensive! 15lbs of white sugar is about 3 days of food for two
> hives and they are really eating it up. However thinking about buying
> this crappy Food Lion sugar (and wondering about its
> processing/additives, etc.) I'm wondering if there's a way/method that
> can be used to avoid feeding sugar syrup altogether for the hobbyist
> beekeeper.
>
> I was thinking maybe instead of collecting this Spring's honey harvest
> for ourselves, we freeze the whole super (after removing bees of course)
> and then save it for the next feeding season. I can't imagine it would
> be much different than a hive-top feeder (which we're using now) with
> all the associated advantages/disadvantages (like robbing,
> cluster-bound, etc.)
>
> I'm curious to hear opinions/predictions on if this approach would work
> in removing the white sugar dependency from the bees' diet in the
> summer, late fall, and winter. Other than not harvesting honey, what
> other issues would you predict to occur trying this method?
>
> Thanks!
> Jeff
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Cedric Pearce Ph.D.
CEO/CSO
Mycosynthetix Inc
505 Meadowlands Drive Suite 103
Hillsborough NC 27278
919 245 0600
919 630 9335 cell





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