Several beekeepers who have purchased corn syrup from one source have had
problems with some barrels.  Last week, I had one barrel that the bees simply
would not touch.
 
   It was partially crystallized; the crystalized part was hard as a rock.
 There is no way, that the bees will touch it.  If you spray them with it,
the next day they will have white powder on their backs, where it has dried
without being licked off.
 
  One of the beekeepers thinks it is "sorbital" rather than corn syrup.  We
are going to have to do some backtracking to see how this could have gotten
mixed in with a load of corn syrup.
 
   I don't know anything about it.  It tastes like corn syrup to me, but
obviously not to the bees.  It doesn't seem to have hurt them, except for not
getting  needed feed at a time when some hives were close to starvation.  Can
anyone provide more info?
 
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