I dont think a feeding station would be a good idea,unless its far far away from your hives, and even then it may bring in robber bees that will attack your hives...if anything feed internally in each hive...
about a feeding station
The days are starting to get warmer at times so I want to try something that I haven't done before. I want to put up a feeding station for when the bees are out foraging on the warm days. Might make up some 2 to 1 syrup to put out. Question is, how far from the hives should the feeding station be? I am not limited on space.
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I cant remember when the last time I had a solid full nights sleep, I guess working nights my last 10+ years before retiring screwed that up..lol..but I was always awake before my alarm would go off......years ago a friend that has hives out on easern long island had a feeding station about 200 feet from his hives and it didnt end well, it brought in too many outside bees that started attacking his hives..so he stopped and it took some time to get rid of the robbing bees from coming around, now he feeds hives internally with both sugar bricks and syrup..I believe you can feed syrup with an upside down jar with lid and a few small holes through the top of the hive, he made new hive covers for feeding with a round hole that fits the jar in, and has solid covers for winter..
I can trace my sleep issues back to working rotating 8 hour shifts, a week of 7-3,then a week of 3-11 and then a week of 11-7 and then back to 7-3 and that repeated for a year or so till steady tours started, but that already screwed my good sleep habits up, I remember the days of going to sleep at 10pm and sleeping solid till 6am....those days are long gone and probably forever...and that caused me to become a very light sleeper and I get up at any noise I hear....over the years I have learned to live with a shortness of sleep...now I fall asleep watching tv early and wakeup for a while and go up to bed...I guess I get my 8ish hours of sleep just not all at once..lol..
when it gets warmer out upstate, I have to check my swarm traps that had bees in them , if they made the winter, then ill transfer them into hive boxes, previous years when I moved them into hive boxes they didnt survive the winter, so I figured ill leave them where they set up going into the cooler weather and winter...
when it gets warmer out upstate, I have to check my swarm traps that had bees in them , if they made the winter, then ill transfer them into hive boxes, previous years when I moved them into hive boxes they didnt survive the winter, so I figured ill leave them where they set up going into the cooler weather and winter...
I have a few swarm boxes someone else built and they made them too deep, almost double the depth of the frames and when I took swarms out of them, the comb was to the bottom of the box..I just put the comb the best I could into a hive and let the bees clean up the mess...
that club sounds great, there are no bee clubs close to me, in my county on long island bee keeping is illegal...there are not many natural honey bees around..stupid law, thats why i usually ignore it and had hives till they died off, so I moved all my hive equipment upstate and just try to catch swarms...
there is a bee club upstate that meets once a month, Ive gone to a few meetings but its inconvenient and isnt as involved as yours...
there is a bee club upstate that meets once a month, Ive gone to a few meetings but its inconvenient and isnt as involved as yours...
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