how to incourage bees to draw out foundation

[oliver90owner]

Any other ideas as to why 'nadiring' would be more reliable?

In one sentence: Ease of retaining brood nest temperature.

RAB

 

[aberreef]

You are not 'joining it'. Your post precipitated the same views from the last three of us posting. We are all in agreement, but not with you.

You said: There won't be much in the way of blossom to forrage for a few weeks so feed with syrup to help boost the colony.

We are all saying ' don't feed 'willy nilly' because it will not help the colony expand. I thought I had shown (more than) enough reasoning to demonstrate that.
We said by all means feed if necessary (shortage of stores).

Anything else is likely counter-productive because with more bees they will catch up very quickly with comb production and then exceed any nectar collection rate simply because there would be enough bees there for the task. Any amount of comb is useless if there are insufficient (as in 'fewer') bees to collect any surplus. Think, bees need to be at around six weeks from the egg laying point before they become foragers. That cannot happen any faster.

Every time 'more bees is better'. I do hope those out there who are not sure can model the two differing points, because when they have, all will be clear. More bees wins, over more stored sugar syrup, every time.

The arguement from my point of view is the arrogance and agression displayed in posts. Personally I'm sick of seeing posts being slammed and ridiculed, this is why I post so infrequently to this forum. Advice here is often superb (has helped me on a multitude of occassions which I'm grateful for)but unfortunately this forum is often quite an unpleasant place IMO

With feeding any colony common sense is obviously necessary. If they're low on stores then this will limit both brood and comb production. It's a balancing act, not bad advice or indeed stupid