Feeding Fall Bee Colonies – One Last Time The cold weather is here or will be in a few days and most beekeeping jobs should be finished. Hopefully, all colonies are queen right and varroa mite counts are low. Each colony should have good honey stores. Even so, most years I add a strategy to […]
Feeding Honey Bees Sugar Water-The Right Way
Feeding Honey Bees Sugar Water – Updated! **This post may contain affiliate links. I receive a small amount of compensation when you purchase from my links, which I’ll totally blow on more bee stuff, y’all! ** Full Policy Here Each year thousands of beekeepers invest time in feeding bees sugar water. And, it’s not just […]
Feeding Bees For Winter Survival
Feeding Bees For Winter Survival **This post may contain affiliate links. I receive a small amount of compensation when you purchase from my links, which I’ll totally blow on more bee stuff, y’all! ** Full Policy Here In a perfect world, beekeepers would never need to be concerned about feeding bees for winter. Every season would provide […]
Nectar Dearth – Trouble for Honey Bees
The Nectar Dearth – What it Means to Honey Bees I enjoy seeing honey bees flying through the air on warm Spring mornings looking for food. Nectar and pollen collected from the new flowers is necessary for colony growth. The bees work diligently to make honey and raise young bees. But this time of plenty […]
How to Feed A New Package of Bees: Keys to Success
Why Feed a New Package of Bees? Knowing how to feed a new package of bees is very important to the novice beekeeper. Understanding why is even more important. Local forage conditions and summer droughts affect the condition of your colonies. Buying a package of bees is the most common way to acquire new honey […]
How to Make a Bucket Feeder for Bees
Making An Bucket Feeder is Easy **This post may contain affiliate links. I receive a small amount of compensation when you purchase from my links, which I’ll totally blow on more bee stuff, y’all! ** Full Policy Here If you are a beekeeper, you will most likely want to make an open bucket feeder at […]
Fat Winter Bees-Why Beekeepers Love Them
Winter Bees – Fat, Healthy & Long-Lived Your calendar says we have a few more months of Winter. However, inside the bee hive our worker winter bees are producing new brood. And, that’s a very good thing. Our hives need a population of new bees and soon! Spring is coming and our bee colonies want […]
Emergency Winter Feeding For Bees-Save Bee Lives
Emergency Winter Feeding For Bees Sometimes beekeepers need to step in and implement emergency winter feeding for bees. To understand why this is necessary, we need to understand the survival mechanism used by honey bees in temperate regions. Honey bees are cold blooded insects. They require food (honey) to generate heat for survival. **This post may contain […]
