#bee feeding

[beemorelady]

Pollen Patties

Hello, it’s fall and the bees are doing well but we are closing down for the season. I have noticed some beetles a few weeks ago and added traps.This pollen patte should add nutrients for the winter.

To make pollen patties I used the following item:

Sugar

Bee-Pro Pollen

Organic Coconut oil

Essential oils

Pollen Patty ingredients

Thanks you for following and have a great…

View On WordPress

[wolfwyrm-blog]

My girls are taking advantage of rare 66° weather in January to get about. You can see they are getting rid of the dead and buzzing about. We filled the sugar water jar this morning. Its about a third gone. My hive is strong, but its my only one. . . So I'm feeding them. Hopefully next spring I'll pull off a couple of splits.

[eventhorizon451]

BEE RESCUE!

I didn’t know if it actually worked, but I found a bumble bee crawling along my kitchen floor (I think he flew in without my noticing when I opened the door for a dog potty break and he didn’t try to fly when I tried to pick him up to return outdoors.  So, I made some sugar water and used a dropper to plop a fat drop in front of him and the little bugger immediately started to drink.  And for a long friggin’ time!  When his wings started to flutter I made a cup with my hand to catch the launch and escorted him outside to watch him fly merrily away.  So, guess that trick does work - good to know some information from the Internet isn’t rubbish...

[defilerwyrm]

Today's forecast: cloudy with a chance of bees

[nuthinbutabeethang]

[larsbees]

Too much of a good thing?

2014-05-26 OK, now I'm a little worried.  My little friends have sucked down another gallon of 1:1 syrup, even though I think there is plenty of forage around.  I tried to lift the top brood super and it was quite heavy (50-60 pounds), so I think they are making plenty of comb/brood/honey.  Not only that, there are TONS of bees and I'm thinking that if I keep stimulating brood with syrup that they may swarm.  So, I've added a honey super (with a queen excluding screen (more on that later) and took off the feeder (image above is before I decided to take off the feeder).

[larsbees]

They're really eating up the sugar...

2014-05-19  Fruit trees (apple, ornamental pear, cherry), magnolia, dogwood, azaleas, rhododendrons, tulips, dandelions...

I have been filling the feeder at the top of the hive with sugar water syrup (5 lb of sugar with water to make one gallon, basically a 1:1 mix by weight).  This helps them accelerate their baby-bee-making process.  Since I put on the second super, they've been sucking it down big time.  I filled it a week ago and today I opened the top it was bone dry.  Not only that, but the area where the syrup was supposed to be was full of bees!  Usually when filled with syrup, the bees can't get into the chamber, but with the syrup gone they charged in and started exploring.  

When I started pouring in the syrup most of the bees backed off, but as soon as I stopped they zipped in and started drinking up.  They looked like drunks in a bee bar.  About a dozen wound up floating in the syrup, but I picked them out one by one with a twig and set them down.  They seemed fine.

After 15 minutes of mucking around with bees flying around my head, I realized I was not wearing my bee suit.  Usually I don't put it on just for changing syrup, but this turned into a much bigger, bee-er ordeal.  No stings, though...  ;-)