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Livestock => Bees & Beekeeping => Topic started by: Plantoid on May 04, 2013, 10:36:46 pm

Title: honey bee health scientific USA report out in the last few days
Post by: Plantoid on May 04, 2013, 10:36:46 pm

See if this is any good to you guys & gals.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/26/1303884110 (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/26/1303884110)
 
 your comments please , if you would .
 

Title: Re: honey bee health scientific USA report out in the last few days
Post by: smokingdragon on May 14, 2013, 09:22:54 pm

I think I have translated this to Tabloid English?

Taking all the honey from hives and replacing it with syrup upsets the wellbeing of the bees making them more succeptible  to disease and microbes.

Basically honey is very complex in its make up compared to syrup and bees seem to require honey to be healthy.

Title: Re: honey bee health scientific USA report out in the last few days
Post by: Plantoid on May 15, 2013, 12:15:22 am

There is a lot more very useful stuff to be found in the whole  site .