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Hi Ian, welcome to the group. Or do I call it a family? Enjoy

More shame in not asking and trying to figure it out, but messing up.

I would advise one from eBay. I got this one: Refractometer Honey Beekeeper Water Sugar Content Brix:58-90% Water:10-33% UK | eBay I don't use it much, but it was the best value I could find. It also is quite good quality.

If anybody is looking for a table saw still go with Parkside. They come at a great price and have a 3-Year warranty for peace of mind.

I live in Ireland and was at Wynne Jones once and loved it. I can recommend it. And their prices are quite good.

OK, thanks for clarifying.

Sorry?

To some extent possibly. But if there is garlic powder in it, I am not sure if it will be as nice as nectar.

When the bees clean of the sugar it falls down. Unless you are a bad beekeeper and there is a very strong draft going up it will not get into the supers. If it does, it would be only a very minimal amount that would have no effect on the honey.

Can I see the research? :)

You only dust down the frames not into cells!

We are not dusting the supers. Any honey it gets into is in the brood box and gets eaten by the bees!

But it keeps the numbers down. Did you not see that graph I posted?

The poll is only asking to see how many people in the forum are using sugar dusting, not how effective. Every new possible treatment or new invention had a slow start. That did not mean it was bad or ineffective, only that people are stuck in their ways and don't like to try something new.

Money wise. Maybe it is not as famous a saying as I thought it was.

Depends on which way you look at it. :)

At least it is one of the concerns.

Ever heard of Poor Beekeepers Syndrome? :)

This is quoted from Randy Oliver: The estimated effect of powdered sugar dusting over a screened bottom on mite population growth, based upon a starting population of 100 mites, a daily growth rate of 2.4%, and an estimated kill of 50% of the phoretic mites per dusting treatment. Note that...

Is it really easier? Randy did it in 15 sec.