“Something is killing bees and it isn’t cell phone towers!!!”
Do you think that feeding them corn syrup or sugar has anything to do with it?
https://spikenardfarm.org/the-bees/why-theyre-in-trouble/
I’d like to know where to get bee honey without this practice, is all raw honey free from it?
Feeding sugar water in large quantities rather than allowing the hive to keep enough of their own stores for winter, is a bad practice. But certainly not something we do, or any other local beekeepers that we know.
It does become necessary to feed sugar water at certain emergency times..... for instance when we install a new package of bees and they have no stored honey, or when the hive has built up population for spring, then all of a sudden a huge freeze arrives and there are too many bees to live off what is stored. We give them few frames of real honey from another hive, but have to supplement that with sugar water sometimes. But we never feed them corn syrup and we never harvest any honey that is produced while feeding the sugar water.