RE: Does anyone know if glucose and fructose is easier for the bees body
to
process?

Easier in the sense that  the necessary job of inversion has already
been accomplished. Sucrose must be broken down into its monosaccharide
components before entering glycolysis. In higher animals, the hydrolysis
occurs before intestinal absorbtion. In yeasts, an invertase is induced
on the cell membrane. In the bee eating honey neither of these is
required. As sucrose is especially easy to hydrolize, I don't immagine
the difference is much anyway besides which the bee (or another bee) has
done the hydrolysis earlier.
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A.J. deLange
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