Mann Lake Pro Health - kills your bees

[Captain776]

Mann-Lake Pro Health Bee Killer.
My girls are drinking a frame feeder of syrup every day, it is licked dry.
I bought a Bottle of Pro Health and yesterday was the first day I used it.
It was so aromatic when I opened it, I only mixed it 1/2 strength for the first time to see if they liked it.
The GOOD and the BAD.
Yup, they liked it, bad part, each feeder had 50-75 dead beds in it.
I have never had even one dead bee with straight syrup.
Today, I cleaned up the mess and filled feeder with Pro Health in one hive and then decided NOT feeding this Pro Health, when I went back 2-3 hrs later to remove and wash it out, there was another 50 or more dead bees.
I am writing to Mann Lake and send them the pictures, see what they say.
Bottle went in the trash.
One thing I am learning more and more.........STOP trying to help the bees, they have been doing this without us for 14 Million years.
Go NATURAL........let the bees do what they do naturally.

Tried to post pics through imaging site, said too big, even when I reduced size.

Bruce

[cao]

That's part of the problem with the feeding additives.  They have a smell to them which can cause a feeding frenzy.  When that happens, there are bound to be some bees shoved into the deep end of the pool and drown.  Plain sugar water doesn't have much of a smell so it doesn't attract the same attention as the smelly stuff.

[Michael Bush]

Essential oils are poisonous...

[Captain776]

Essential oils are poisonous...

Thanks Michael.
I value your experience.
Then WHY would Mann Lake sell this poison?

I sent them an e mail, so far no answer.

Bruce

[Michael Bush]

>Then WHY would Mann Lake sell this poison?

Honey Bee Healthy (HBH) is a popular product.  Mann Lake is making a knock off of it and selling it as "Pro Health".  It does work as a feed attractant (hence the robbing it sets off) and it does help with Nosema apis (which is virtually extinct now).  At low levels essential oils act as antimicrobials.   At higher levels it is toxic.