Providing Water for Bees
Master Beekeepers Reveal How to Provide Essential Water Sources for Bees – A Must for Every Beekeeper for Beekeeping Success and Hive Health.
Master Beekeepers Reveal How to Provide Essential Water Sources for Bees – A Must for Every Beekeeper for Beekeeping Success and Hive Health.
Monitoring the weight, humidity, and temperature of a colony of bees is the modern way of checking on the colony and progress of a colony remotely. Here is the data we get from our system.
Bees forage from flowers to get both their pollen and nectar, their two energy sources. Not all flowers provide pollen and nectar for bees; some produce one or the other.
What Is Robbing In Beekeeping? Robbing is when one colony is stealing honey or nectar from the syrup feeder or the inside of another colony. Looting is the best analogy of robbing behavior in a hive. One colony with excess forager bees without a natural food source will look for weak colonies to take advantage …
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During the spring, a beekeeper’s thoughts turn to thinking of an immensely successful upcoming year. As eternal optimists, beekeepers expect a great season with plenty of sweet victories to be had. But yet, as in much of life, the start of a new venture is the hardest. The same goes for honey bees starting their …
DO YOU FEED YOUR BEES? As a beekeeper, you have the responsibility to take care of your bees. To be a good steward of your bees, you may give them supplemental sugar syrup, also called sugar water. Sugar syrup is no doubt, a poor substitute for nectar from flowers, but it is necessary to keep your …
I really don’t like to give my bees sugar syrup, but it is better than letting them die. The reasons I don’t like to give them sugar syrup are : 1) Sugar water is a poor nutritional supplement for honey and is the equivalent of giving snicker bars to kids to live on. 2) Making sugar …
Beekeeping catalogs overflow with options when it comes to feeding bees. Each option comes with negatives and positives. Beekeepers swoon over the opportunity to find the best option for feeding their bees. Until of course it starts getting complicated when hearing the opinions of other beekeepers. We are firm believers in having lots of options. …
Winter can be tough for bees. They can’t find much food and need extra help from us, the beekeepers. In this post, we’re going to talk about how to feed bees when it’s cold outside. Feeding bees in winter is different from other times of the year, and it’s really important to do it right. …