your thoughts please about frames with honey

[the beehive lodge]

OK here we go i have a few frames with capped honey and pollen in them
so i've put them in a spare brood box 20 feet away so my bees have found them and is flying back and forth taking it back to there hive due to the bad weather rain spells and windy gust we have had lately my way of thinking is helping them collect and store or am i encouraging them to start robbing if i bring in another colony from else ware at a later stage

 

[drstitson]

problem is more about encouraging possible disease spread, same as any open feeder.


keep the frames in a selaed nuc box and save for when needed eg making splits or nucs.

 

[VEG]

you are risking disease by allowing any bee from any colony within miles feeding from those combs. Open feeding is not recommended.

 

[the beehive lodge]

Cheers drstitson
sometimes i can't see the wood from the trees.
i like this beekeeping forum thanks for your input

 

[the beehive lodge]

just been out and removed them into a safe place
my signature says it all

 

[Chickenlicken]

Aside from the disease, the other thing to watch for is that you could potentially start robbing of weak colonies by strong colonies. Bees are opportunists and teaching them that honey can be found unguarded in onr hive may encourage strong colonies to take on weak ones for an easy honey collection.
Clint

 

[Poly Hive]

Hmm actually...

Disease point first. If isolated then no issues. All you are doing is feeding your own bees and of course you know they are disease free right?

2nd. Teaching robbing? Not in my experience, if bees can get freebies then they do not bother with robbing. Think about it, why go to the effort of robbing when it's on a plate? Bees are thrifty with effort. If....note the if, if isolated then open feeding is actually a robbing preventitive. Did it for years.

PH