Feeding

[jonnybeegood]

Well, just to clarify, my uniting of the nuc with hardly any stores with another 14x12 hive was a success, i even had a couple of spare frames of brood which were hatching to go in another hive. I added 2 spare frames of honey to the united hive. Other hives all doing well

 

[Dishmop]

Hardly any stores means they have something to eat.

 

[Hivemaker.]

(remember 2012?)

Yes, and i remember reading that many, beekeepers needed to feed their bees right up until mid to late July, just to keep them alive, as there was no honey flow at all in many areas.

 

[jonnybeegood]

Hardly any stores means they have something to eat.

Yes but hardly any stores could be gone in a day or two & bees would need fed , are you saying you would just lesve your bees in the hope they would find some nectar? Or rob someone elses hive?

 

[Dishmop]

Yes but hardly any stores could be gone in a day or two & bees would need fed , are you saying you would just lesve your bees in the hope they would find some nectar? Or rob someone elses hive?

hardly any stores could also mean enough for a week or two when you consider how little they eat during the winter, and if someone elses bees had stores why wouldnt yours.

I cant give an answer other parts of your reply because I have never fed any of them.

just lesve your bees in the hope they would find some nectar

thats what bees do..

 

[jonnybeegood]

hardly any stores could also mean enough for a week or two when you consider how little they eat during the winter, and if someone elses bees had stores why wouldnt yours.

I cant give an answer other parts of your reply because I have never fed any of them.

thats what bees do..

Do you actually know anything about bees?
"When you consider how little they eat over winter"?
"If someone elses bees had stores, why wouldnt yours?"
Youre having a laugh mate.

 

[B+.]

Hardly any stores means they have something to eat.

Yes. Don't you just love it when an important part is missed out of the story?

 

[Finman]

It is not hard to see, when bees need feeding.

To make syrup is difficult. Dishmop did not know, how to weight 1kg sugar package. That is why he does not feed.

 

[sipa]

I don't care what time of year it is or what anyone else is doing.
If for whatever reason bees need feed they get it, end of.

So do what You think is right.

 

[Dishmop]

Do you actually know anything about bees?
"When you consider how little they eat over winter"?
"If someone elses bees had stores, why wouldnt yours?"
Youre having a laugh mate.

OK.tell us all how much they eat over winter until they start flying the next year?

 

[Dishmop]

It is not hard to see, when bees need feeding.

To make syrup is difficult. Dishmop did not know, how to weight 1kg sugar package. That is why he does not feed.

Nobody said it was difficult... to make syrup..The weight is on the packet,but unless you pull the frames out you cant see whats there, and just because there is nothing capped, a person could well be wrong in that because they see no capped food, that the bees are starving..

The reason I dont feed...its so simple really..

 

[Finman]

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[Finman]

but unless you pull the frames out you cant see whats there, ..

That is what I doubted. Can't see simply.

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[Cussword]

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That makes no sense, sorry Finnie, I can't help myself.

 

[jonnybeegood]

Nobody said it was difficult... to make syrup..The weight is on the packet,but unless you pull the frames out you cant see whats there, and just because there is nothing capped, a person could well be wrong in that because they see no capped food, that the bees are starving..

The reason I dont feed...its so simple really..

Do you really think i dont know what to look for? I might only be in my second year & managed the vast majority of it without this forum. Read my opening post again. & see if it sinks in, i am not feeding my bees but i would if i thought it was needed, i certainly wouldnt ask, should i feed my bees or let them die.
With regard to your last post about how much they eat over winter?
I am no expert but i would say its impossible to put a figure on, it depends on temperatures, weather, how many bees in your hive or hives, whether you fed in Autumn, how much stores they have, whether they find the stores or starve when they cant reach them. E.t.c e.t.c.

 

[Cussword]

I might only be in my second year & managed the vast majority of it without this forum.

I may get banned for this but, why don't you manage the rest of your beekeeping without this forum? All you do is argue with people that don't agree with you.

To argue is not a bad thing, people should have different opinions. You're just unpleasant.

 

[sipa]

How about a little respect here.

It's like a bloody school playground. It's little wonder that hardly any of the membership bothers to post because of some of the attitudes on display here.
sheeesh !!

 

[B+.]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I71cY9Ysy5U
Its so much easier not to comment in the long run

 

[Cussword]

Sorry B+, of course you're right. It just sometimes gets so annoying when you are trying to learn something from the forum, & people get so personal & belligerent.

 

[Dishmop]

Do you really think i dont know what to look for? I might only be in my second year & managed the vast majority of it without this forum. Read my opening post again. & see if it sinks in, i am not feeding my bees but i would if i thought it was needed, i certainly wouldnt ask, should i feed my bees or let them die.
With regard to your last post about how much they eat over winter?
I am no expert but i would say its impossible to put a figure on, it depends on temperatures, weather, how many bees in your hive or hives, whether you fed in Autumn, how much stores they have, whether they find the stores or starve when they cant reach them. E.t.c e.t.c.

I understood fully what you wrote in your first post as did everybody else, and nobody has mentioned anything about you feeding your bees......it was a general comment that anybody feeding thier bees in May might well be an idiot of some type...

this will be stored in the frames, wont it get mixed in with honey if they start bringing nectar in?

Personally I'd be embarassed to ask that question...

I am no expert but i would say its impossible to put a figure on

You dont need to be an expert, just the ability to realise it was a trick question.