Bob,
i do appreciate your ability to communicate, and feel as if i have 
benefitted from yours and several others comments. Thank you for passing 
your article in front of the eyes of the 3 researchers noted in your 
original post.

I do, at times,on BEE-L,feel  like the man in the fairy tale i read to my 
girls when they were little:
He had finally captured a Leprechaun, and everybody knows the rules are that 
if you do that, the litte fellow has to show you where the gold is buried. 
Well, the  Leprechaun led him to a tree deep in the woods  under which the 
gold lay. The man tied a yellow scarf around the tree so that he could find 
it after going to his house to retrieve his shovel. The man made the 
Leprechaun promise not to remove the scarf, and since  Leprechauns cannot 
lie, the man released him and returned for his shovel. Coming back to the 
woods, to his horror, he found all the trees had yellow scarves tied around 
them!

That was free-now to my question.

Bobs comments:

> I point to the fact that bees feed sucrose have
> got greater longevity than bees feed HFCS.
> (Roy Barker 1974 Tucson Bee Lab & Pamela Gregory 2008 Weslaco Bee Lab )
>
> I might also point out to my friend Allen Dick that Dr. Gregory's  tests
> were also done on outside flying bees ( 2006)   to show the results were 
> the
> same.( Back in 1974 many beekeepers debunked the Barker USDA-ARS research
> saying the results would be different if the bees had been flying)

My comments / question:

Bill Truesdale (I am 95% sure-pleaase comment if Im wrong Bill) noted that a 
study was done across the water that concluded that the best winter feed is:
Sucrose                                                      Best
HFCS (at least some specs)                      2ndBest
Honey                                                       3rd  Best

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


I am feeding HFCS, so this is really more than academic for me. I have about 
300 hives. I regularly heat it to over 100 deg F for brief periods. Doing 
this for months, and thus far no noticeable effects.

Thanks much for any substantive comments

John Horton



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