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Old 19-05-2012, 12:42 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Bumble bee mites

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Sacha wrote:
Sugar-water would probably work just as well.


No, it does not. If you want to get a almost dying bumble be to
up give her honey to lick.


Better to let one bee die, than risk it catching a bee disease from the
honey and infecting/killing a whole colony.

Janet