Tony Slater

I’d be interested to know more too. I think HFCS is roughly 50/50 fructose/glucose, the same as sucrose after it’s been inverted, and...

Thanks, that’s helpful. So when a bee is taking syrup from the feeder into its honey stomach, it is involuntarily mixing invertase -...

Corn syrup is mostly glucose isn’t it, and that is a sugar. Unless it is further processed to convert some of the glucose to fructose...

I don’t see why not. The bees use invertase to invert sucrose. Can they turn this off - why would they want to when processing syrup. We...

But nectar contains a lot of sucrose, as well as fructose and glucose. That’s why bees need to secrete invertase, in order to invert the...

So what is it that gives honey its distinctive taste? Whatever the honey was made of it still has an unmistakeable flavour. You might be...

I’ve been feeding my bees 2:1 sugar-to-water syrup. They’ve taken down a lot. I was inspecting a couple of hives today and was reminded...