How to assemble this frame feeder:
I bought this feeder on Amazon. Here's a link where you can buy it, too:
http://amzn.to/2p5CRkI
Put it in your brood box. Take out one frame and put this in its place. Then fill it with three quarts sugar water (aka sugar syrup). I make mine 50/50 water/sugar.
You need to feed your bees when they don't have resources in the hive, such as during a dearth or drought, when they have been moved into a new hive without honey stores, etc.
I bought this one after catching a swarm. I didn't have any drawn comb or honey stores to give them. I put them in a fresh hive with new foundation frames. This means there was nothing in there. They had to start from scratch, which is fine for a swarm. In nature, a swarm would start with nothing anyway. I was worried they might not have enough food, so I bought this feeder.
When I removed the frame to install this feeder, there was already a tine amount of comb which the bees had drawn out on the foundation in the four days since I caught them. (I should take a photo of it.) In the unfinished cells, there was already nectar and pollen. The nectar was drying out to become honey.
Now, to do battle with the ants.
Please don't spray bees. Call me. I will rescue them.
Phone or text 865-235-1323
Listen to my blog: Dadofmykids Podcast
I bought this feeder on Amazon. Here's a link where you can buy it, too:
http://amzn.to/2p5CRkI
Put it in your brood box. Take out one frame and put this in its place. Then fill it with three quarts sugar water (aka sugar syrup). I make mine 50/50 water/sugar.
You need to feed your bees when they don't have resources in the hive, such as during a dearth or drought, when they have been moved into a new hive without honey stores, etc.
I bought this one after catching a swarm. I didn't have any drawn comb or honey stores to give them. I put them in a fresh hive with new foundation frames. This means there was nothing in there. They had to start from scratch, which is fine for a swarm. In nature, a swarm would start with nothing anyway. I was worried they might not have enough food, so I bought this feeder.
When I removed the frame to install this feeder, there was already a tine amount of comb which the bees had drawn out on the foundation in the four days since I caught them. (I should take a photo of it.) In the unfinished cells, there was already nectar and pollen. The nectar was drying out to become honey.
Now, to do battle with the ants.
Please don't spray bees. Call me. I will rescue them.
Phone or text 865-235-1323
Listen to my blog: Dadofmykids Podcast
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