🔵How Much FEED Do Your NEW Bees Need???

Should we feed bees in SPRING?

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[FlorinDonald]

You answered to all my spring questions. Cheers 🥂

[naturalwitchery]

I'm so graymteful to find your channel. ❤ you are an excellent teacher!

[ericduncan]

This is such an important topic to mentor to newer beekeepers. It’s very specific to the microclimate and seasonal bloom where a beekeeper is as well as the style of colony, drawn comb resources and bee strength at different seasonal points.
Nuance for sure with this. Great topic and one many new folks miss in all the “beginner” information they have to absorb. Colony inspections for resources in the frame to support not only growth but survival during a dearth is hugely important and can prevent “in season” losses.

[SageandStoneHomestead]

New beekeepers look into trickle feeding. Feeding can help build them up fast yes and sometimes that's overwhelming, and creates semi-advanced problems like nectar-bound brood nests and a tendency to swarm.

Great video as always, Kamon!

[donbearden]

Kamon, with a brood pattern like that maybe you should pinch that Queen or just send her to me and I will give her a hive to live out the rest of her life. lol All jokes aside she looks like her last name must be Saban because she’s a winner! RTR

[LittleRiverBees-orqp]

I got my first 2 packages last Friday. I think the 2nd package I installed last some bees to the first. I check the feeders every day to see how much they are consuming and add as needed. For me this is easy as the Hives are in my backyard.

[southernexposure]

Today is June 16 2023. On May 5 or 6 a small swarm moved into my lure (8 frame mediums) and there's enough bees to fill one box. They've taken about a gallon of 1:1. They had no foundation to start on and they've drawn 7 frames about half way. I turned the box around hoping they'll draw on the bare end of each frame.
My queen looks good. I watched her about 2 minutes on a frame. She's cruising the cells, but I didn't see her lay. With snow white combs I don't think I can see eggs anyway so I'll have to see her lay to know for sure.
There's some pollen on a frame or two and some nectar at the frame tops and there's a little dark nectar in there. I was wondering what to look for to know when to stop feeding. This year it's been cold longer than usual and rainy so I think bees were late in swarming.
If I understood your video I think I need to keep feeding for another week or two so they can draw another box full of comb. I'll keep yout 30% guideline in mind and I'll weaken my sugar ratio a little. Please correct me if I don't have that right.
Oh, I mark one end on the tops of my frames to keep up with honoring their frames orientation.
Thanks for the video.

[dcsblessedbees]

Thank you Kamon for the advice on last nights chat, any advice is always welcome.

[zetectic]

It is all about getting the balance right 😀

[_J.F_]

Know your seasons, yes, but also yes to be prepared to see those seasons messed up by irregular weather patterns, or climate change. The past few years nothing has been falling into any regular pattern where I live, and I think most of us are seeing this happening regardless of where we live.

[vanderpoolfarmsl.l.c.]

Kamon, you are a great teacher. Excellent instruction; right on target!

[aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

That frame of brood looks like a honey crop to me, sweet deal

[matthunt]

Thanks for that information, that really answered a lot of questions I had on feeding. God bless you and your family, Matt

[framcesmoore]

Ha Kamon your bucket was black from mold, and u used it any way, I only say that because I would always wash them out if they looked like that. I believed it would mess up the new syrup, well because u did that it must be OK so I am not going to worry about it any more the brood pattern on frame was beautiful. U did a good job with the video hope u enjoy the rest of your week.

[burleybeeyard]

Showed up to the yard today without a hive tool. Found some bandage scissors from work. Surprised how well I managed 😂

[BlanchardsBees]

I just picked up that same hive tool! I love it!

[mj-lsqrxpn]

I watched a video recent re the ratio of 1:1 syrup. It was interesting as you say, the bees build comb and brood quicker with thinner syrup, esp 1:1.5 bees are complicated. :/

[TheresaMcCauley]

I have a question for you, I rescued a 🐝bee🐝 and I want to know in relative to teaspoons, or quarter cup, half a cup, etc., how much sugar water will they drink every day? Also, is there any other food that I can give the bee? I did go to the garden center, and I bought a Hellabores flowerinf/nectar/pollen plant, as well as black lavender plant. Are there any other foods, or supplements that I can provide?🙂

[lindseyhomesteadfarm]

Great video sir. I like to feed thin syrup in the spring to my small colonies.

[DarkoPcelar]

One Thing i noticed is that beekeepers from US insist on feeding bees with sugar most of the time when its not neeeded.
We beekeepers in Serbia give sugar just after winter when bees run out of honey and during bad weather days when there is a lot of bees and they are running out of food.
Our bees are resistant because we dont burn them with sugar feeds.
We treat bees 1 time in spring with smoke, 1 time in fal with smoke and in winter 1 time with oxalic acid.
On the other side I see you treat bees like 5 times more.
Many differences between us