Here's a warning that I should have included in my comments on feeding bees:
 
   I would caution that clean white sugar, or good quality high fructose corn
syrup is the only feed I would use in the fall. Other materials have too much
indigestible matter, and bees cannot always fly in winter, to void.
 
   In the spring, we have used a lot of raw sugar and brown sugar with no
problems. Confectioners sugar has a lot of corn starch, and bees sometimes
will not take it. I mix a little with other forms of sugar, so no hives wind
up with exclusively confectioners sugar.  I have to use sucrose syrup
cautiously, as it can stimulate robbing, just as honey would.
 
    Right now we are using almost exclusively HFCS, as it is the cheapest feed
available to us.  It is probably the safest, as well.
 
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