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Where have all the Honey Bees gone ? | 33 comments (33 topical, 0 editorial)

Re: Where have all the Honey Bees gone ? (3.00 / 0) (#24)
by Ungrounded Lightning Rod on Wed May 7th, 2008 at 05:07:36 PM MST
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The honey is their energy food. They also store "bee bread" - compressed pollen laced with antibiotic secretions - which is their source of protein and other nutrients, and entirely adequate to fill those needs.

Replacing the honey with sugar is not a hardship for them. It's just substituting one source of "empty calories" for another.

Seems to me that swapping the honey for sugar is a good deal on both sides - and a lot better for the bees than harvesting the honey and leaving nothing. (In particular, the bees can be given MORE sugar than they harvested. That's especially valuable to them in famine years.)

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Re: Where have all the Honey Bees gone ? (3.00 / 0) (#26)
by finnsawyer on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 09:30:17 AM MST
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Every once in a while I hear about aspects of honey that are supposed to be beneficial for humans. If that's so then there must be more to honey for the bees than mere energy, whereas refined sugar is just a pure energy product. I hesitate to call it a food.
GeoM
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Where have all the Honey Bees gone ? | 33 comments (33 topical, 0 editorial)

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