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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bdgee: [QB] Bee food is 99% of the time nothing but sugar water. Someone is "imagining" rather than "thinking" and "misrepresenting" rather than "reporting". From, http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_508326.html "Federal scientists are researching whether the same industrial chemicals blamed for sickening and killing thousands of pets are responsible for decimating the honeybee population. No link has been found, but researchers at the Department of Agriculture's Bee Research Laboratory and the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine are testing commercial bee feed for melamine-related compounds and doing feed tests on honeybees. " Notice it DOES NOT say there is any finding of contaminated bee feed. I hardly believe a world wide decrease in bees could be reasonably attributed to contaminants in any comercial bee feed, as artificially feeding bees is more than extremely rare and also extremely non-profitable. Bees are rarely fed by the keeper. From http://www.honeybee.com.au/Library/Beefeeds.html "The use of supplementary protein feeds for commercial bee keeping is not recommended" and "The feeding of commercial bees, has to be done for a profit. A crop of honey, a pollination contract or queen bee breeding must be carefully targeted. To use supplementary bee foods to produce strong hives, without a target crop is poor management bad economics, and will only lead to disappointment and a disbelief in the value of supplementary feeding." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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