mel1of4
New Bee
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- Mar 1, 2010
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- Location
- Carlisle, Cumbria
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 1
Thanks everyone for your comments on my last thread.
Been reading some of the other threads and would like to ask: lots of people saying don't feed too early, you should be raising bees not making stores. How do you judge this? My bees had lots of room and lots of flowers but no stores at all. Surely if I give them syrup (which I have done) they will use this to make brood until they judge it is time to stop doing that and put down stores for winter? If I didn't feed them they wouldn't be able to make brood. When would you start autumn feeding in the North of England?
Many thanks in confusion
Been reading some of the other threads and would like to ask: lots of people saying don't feed too early, you should be raising bees not making stores. How do you judge this? My bees had lots of room and lots of flowers but no stores at all. Surely if I give them syrup (which I have done) they will use this to make brood until they judge it is time to stop doing that and put down stores for winter? If I didn't feed them they wouldn't be able to make brood. When would you start autumn feeding in the North of England?
Many thanks in confusion