Bees in Minnesota. Pulled supers off and have 15 frames with nectar and some capped honey. How can I feed it back to bees for winter stores? Another question in same vein. Can I extract 1 side of frame with capped honey? Thx.

Droughts happen, then syrup is a life saver, when nothing is in bloom around here. Winter feeding takes fondant or dry sugar, I make fondant. Something in the cooking process converts the sugar to a more digestible form. But Camero 7 has another way, this post will help you out...

I have tried everything to stop the robbing. :frustrated: I had gone into the hives in late August, honey stores were so low or nil. We have been feeding sugar water 200 feet away from the beeyard. First the liquid feeder they crawl into, was a fiasco as they suffocated each other til...

I went into the hives yesterday and again I was surprised by what I found. The apparently strong med/med/med hive had almost no brood, but a million bees. Last week, because they were crowded, I had added the 3rd med, just in case. I put a quart of 1:1 syrup on them even though they seemed to...

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