Hello John & All,
Thanks for the vote of confidence!

John asks:
What kind of life span difference are we talking about here-days , weeks..?

The HFCS bees started dying at 6 days ( in both the 1974 & 2006 USDA-ARS
tests).
The HFCS bees continued to die at a greater rate than the sucrose fed bees
until the end around day 29.

The hypothesis for the greater longevity with the sucrose bees is the toxic
sugars stachyose & rafinase in HFCS
                       and/ or
the chemical properties of fructose



>I am feeding HFCS, so this is really more than academic for me.

I have been feeding exclusively HFCS for over a decade. I am certainly not
going to run the HFCS I have got on hand down the drain. I have seen enough
of Dr. Pamela Gregory's tests to consider switching to a sucrose syrup (
like Dakota Gunness is selling).
Sucrose syrup  only contains sucrose. In fact when tested by Weslaco the 50%
sucrose syrup contained 492.0 mg/ml sucrose and no other sugars. No
stachyose or Rafinase
See earlier post to my friend Dick M. for the Weslaco breakdown for HFCS.
Its late and I have had a busy week so did not put the whole graph in post.

I was surprised at the number of California beekeepers at the ABF convention
which said . HFCS is poor bee feed so we do not buy HFCS. I also noted that
those guys were not having any CCD problems.

I am not laying all the blame on HFCS because maybe only a small part of the
whole picture but caught my interest enough to drive clear to the Mexican
border to learn about the Weslaco research.

Also stachyose & rafinase in the most used pollen substitute on the market
but that news was part of her second presentation .

Bob


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