First year KTBH beekeeper here. I feel so guilty with the heat so high and my girls with what appears to be little or no flowering vegetation. Should I feed them sugar syrup through this drought?

I caught a swarm a couple weeks ago and I plan to feed them heavily to increase their chances of surviving the long Vermont winter. I'm giving them white sugar syrup but I'm wondering about nutrition. Processed sugar likely lacks the vitamins, minerals, and other trace compounds that nectar has...

This is my first year to keep bees. I was looking at some of the older post and came across several on candy boards. My question is when should I feed candy boards or fondant and when should I feed sugar syurp. I made syurp when I got my bees this spring and I am feeding some now, since I don't...