Re:  Effect of Feeding Honey Bee (Apis mellifera Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Colonies With Honey, Sugar Solution, Inverted Sugar, and Wheat Starch Syrup
on Nosematosis Prevalence and Intensity
https://academic.oup.com/jee/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jee/toz251/5575216?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Their results suggest that there was little difference between feeding the
colonies  floral honey (source not specified), sucrose syrup, Apiinvert
inverted sugar, or wheat starch syrup, with a trend for slightly higher
nosema prevalence in the hives fed the wheat starch syrup.  The authors
misinterpreted some cited research, but did a good job at considering why
the wheat syrup may had increased nosema prevalence.  They ruled out HMF
(although it was fairly high), and suspected complex polysaccharides
perhaps causing some dysentery (although they didn't observe any field
signs).  Overall, IMHO, a good trial, suggesting that bees may do best when
wintered on quality honey or sugar syrups, as opposed to at least some
other carbohydrate sources.


-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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