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Honey Feeding

Honey feeding refers to the practice of feeding bee colonies with their own honey instead of sugar syrup. This is partially required in organic beekeeping. A distinction is made between returning a colony's own honey (safe) and feeding foreign honey (disease risk from AFB spores).

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