Ok, for something different.
I was going through recipes for feeding bees and found this statement:
"honey contains materials that bees can not digest and sugar syrup makes for
a better source of food".
I've encountered that notion from a professional colleague from Europe who
argued that bees should only be fed fondant - that both syrup and honey
were bad foods for bees.
Now, I've a really hard time believing the initial statement. Bees
survived on honey alone long before being manipulated for our own interests.
Honey has many things lacking in syrup. Just can't figure how bees survived,
if honey is an inferior food, especially the idea that it is inferior to
syrup.
If anyone can justify the claim, I'd be curious as to the rationale; like
to see the data.
Jerry
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