Dusty Rhodes wrote:
 
> 3. What type of sugar is best to feed bees?
the best is fructose and glucose. So the bees don't have to spilt the
sacarose in it
 
> (correct me if I am wrong, but i think honey contains only about 1% maltose)
Honey contains about 5 to 10 % of maltose
it is not so sweet in tast for men, (they use it in laboratorium as foot
in testcultures )
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