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- From: moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com
- Subject: Re: hummingbird feeder formula
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.171923.10254@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:12:49 GMT
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- In article <92287.092237SAHRABI@auvm.american.edu>, <SAHRABI@auvm.american.edu> writes...
- >>Boil 1/2 cup sugar in 2 cups of water. Let it cool, and place it
- >>in your feeder. Cheap, easy, environmentally sound.
-
- >I was given to understand that humming birds cannot digest complex
- >sugars such as sucrose. They will gorge themselves on the sugar solution
- >because it tastes sweet, but they get no nourishment from it.
- >A glucose solution using honey is much better for them since they can
- >digest glucose.
-
- I happened to read the label of a commercial hummingbird feeding packet in
- the store today, and the first 2 ingredients were sucrose and dextrose (both
- sugars), in that order. #3 was something containing protein, #4 (maybe #5)
- was food coloring.
-
- -Mike
-