How To Keep Bees Busy And Happy Through Dearth

[clothespindolls]

Yes, bees are ruthless! My bees taught me that!

[Jacabiem]

Thx David. Such a strange year. Quick Hard dearth this year.

[jamesbarron]

I eat watermelon from my garden almost every morning for breakfast and give my bees the rinds. The bees and paper wasp fight over it. I have a feeding table set up next to a bird bath under a shade tree so they can have access to both in one spot.

[spunkysparks]

I still have plenty of flowers blooming for the bees.

[yahsephhawkins]

👍great video.
About the salt. A friend of mine was clearing an area for a small garden. He put approximately 1 inch of salt on the area where the garden was to be. In a few days after he put the salt down, it rained, not a heavy rain but enough to desolve the salt. In about a week or so, he noticed grass growing back. It came back thicker and greener than it ever was. So, salt actually helps.

[rodneymiddleton]

I have less waste using a big tote with holes drilled around it. Thanks!!

[InTexasMatt]

Please post a video link if you find the link on feeder.

[jasoncole]

With opening feeding, i end up with insane amounts of dead bees around the feeders. I used these bucket feeders as well as large coolers with straw so the bees can have a place to land. Any tips to reduce the bees from fighting, drowning, going crazy?

[doozowings]

I need to make me one of these .. One question, how do the ants react to these feeders ?

[JesusisLord-A]

So you have to fill this up pretty much every day, correct? Depending on the state, I'm in Georgia as well, I heard that if you have a certain number of colonies you can write the sugar off on taxes. Is this true? My wife wasn't very happy spending $20 every two days for bee sugar when "God had fed the bees before we got here."

[paulschaefer]

If you don't believe what he's saying about feeding frenzies, Just try to extract honey a mile from the apiary during the dearth and notice how many dead bees you have to filter out of the honey.

[redmax]

Salt comes from the earth lol not sure how it wud destroy it 😂