> That beekeepers are good enough at and persistent enough about shopping for the relative quality of the syrup they are buying to be relevant is entirely unbel

> That beekeepers are good enough at and persistent enough about shopping for the relative quality of the syrup they are buying to be relevant is entirely unbelievable. I'm going to paraphrase that statement a bit: "It's entirely unbelievable that a beekeeper's decisions in corn syrup selection could be relevant to colony collapse disorder." That seems to operate on the assumption that every 5 gallon bucket of corn syrup is perfectly identical, no matter the supplier. But I'll shoot down my own assumption that every bee keeper, who has experienced colony collapse disorder affecting their hives, has actually even used corn syrup explicitly as bee feed for their bees. I'm only taking that technique from the premise of the research I read about.