bee keepers obsessed with feeding syrup

[Finman]

y. Early swarming is usually due to late supering.

Swarming is reproduction habit of bees.
Biggest hives swarm first. Biggest hives start first yield collecting.
Early swarming depends on genetics.

Poor beekeeping is its own story that beek is not able to control swarming. It needs skills that swarms do not escape.
Too much stores or too few stores in the hive in spring, that is normal beekeeping issue and surely not swarming control issue.

What ever.. Spring is long and food consumption is high because hive has brood.
It is part of winter feeding.
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[Dishmop]

The most single thing is to extract honey and sell it and then feed 20 kg sugar for winter feed in September. To leave stores is too expencive beekeeping.

What heck is greedy... In Uk hobby beekeeper gets on average 15kg/hive. It is not even enough for wintering.
Sugar is as good wintering food as honey.

As you well know, not everybody who keeps bees does it for the money, and "do nothing beekeepers" probably find that all the work involved is not worth the effort, therefore leaving the bees with their own honey for the winter is the easy way to go.

 

[Dishmop]

How many deep frames are needed for 20kg of syrup?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

What's a Kg ?

 

[user 6228]

What's a Kg ?

about a 1/9th of a peck

 

[user 6228]

I just leave the ivy nectar

Ivy Honey : that should be the most expensive honey in the world... as it costs the bees the most to collect and process it (only 10% sugars)

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

That's better

 

[Dishmop]

What's a Kg ?

A short Russia spy.

 

[Dishmop]

In Uk hobby beekeeper gets on average 15kg/hive. It is not even enough for wintering.

Nonsense.

 

[Ely]

Ivy Honey : that should be the most expensive honey in the world... as it costs the bees the most to collect and process it (only 10% sugars)

Shame it tastes awful then as my bees collect it by the tonne!

 

[Finman]

It is good enough that you can make an AS and stop swarming fever. Now it is not time to think about winter stores. It is half July.

 

[Dishmop]

Shame it tastes awful then as my bees collect it by the tonne!

Should one not also have to give the imperial equivalent.????

 

[Finman]

Empirical evidence of bees in my locale. ... Why should my bees be any different from anyone else's?

Because bees are different strains, mongrels , hybrids. Nursing habit are different.
Swarming schedules and habits are very different between strains.