I've found this website http://www.beedata.com/data2/feeding_bees.html which gives information on feeding bees it's by Dawn Yates who writes......
SECTION A - FEEDING HONEYBEES
1.The reasons for feeding a colony sugar are:
a) To provide adequate stores for winter (rapid feeding).
b) To provide emergency stores in the season between colony inspections
(rapid feeding).
c) As a means of administering drugs (generally rapid feeding).
d) To stimulate the queen to lay (usually slow feeding).
e) To prevent starvation when the colony is about to succumb (rapid).
f) To enhance wax production and the drawing of foundation and comb (slow
or rapid depending on circumstances, eg. a swarm on foundation is fed
rapidly).
g) When a colony has an inadequate foraging force, eg. an artificial swarm
which is short of stores (rapid feeding) or after spray poisoning losses.
My question is simply what is meant by rapid/general/slow feeding in this context?
SECTION A - FEEDING HONEYBEES
1.The reasons for feeding a colony sugar are:
a) To provide adequate stores for winter (rapid feeding).
b) To provide emergency stores in the season between colony inspections
(rapid feeding).
c) As a means of administering drugs (generally rapid feeding).
d) To stimulate the queen to lay (usually slow feeding).
e) To prevent starvation when the colony is about to succumb (rapid).
f) To enhance wax production and the drawing of foundation and comb (slow
or rapid depending on circumstances, eg. a swarm on foundation is fed
rapidly).
g) When a colony has an inadequate foraging force, eg. an artificial swarm
which is short of stores (rapid feeding) or after spray poisoning losses.
My question is simply what is meant by rapid/general/slow feeding in this context?