Randy's post was a bit difficult to read. Allow me to separate out the key points:

Bob wrote:
> commercial beekeepers thought of this without help from researchers.

Randy offered:
> Shimanuki, et al  1983. Effect of feeding pollen substitutes to colonies of honey bees 

and suggested that this information was already available

Me:
Therefore they could have taken the cue from the researchers after all. 
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