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What Happens to Bees in the Winter?
October 25, 2022 · Angi Schneider · Health & Pests
In order to prepare your hives, it’s important to understand what happens to bees in the winter and how your climate affects them.
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Is Fondant Actually Detrimental to Bees?
When you cook sugar or add an acid such as vinegar or cream of tartar, you break the molecular bonds that hold sucrose together and end up with the two simple sugars. It’s the fructose portion that causes the problem. When fructose is heated it produces hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), which is toxic to bees.
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What’s Wrong with my Homemade Fondant?
September 15, 2020 · Rusty Burlew · Ask the Expert
Beekeepers add vinegar to fondant recipes under the mistaken idea that you need to invert the sucrose for the bees. This is not true. Most nectar is mainly sucrose, but the instant the bees ingest it, their saliva breaks it down into glucose and fructose.
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