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What is the easiest way to feed honey back to bees? I took some honey off an established hive earlier this year and now I am wanting to feed it to my new hives. What do you recommend?
I'm doing this with a queenless nuk right now. Pint size jar, started with a cup of honey because I worried about robbing, especially with them being queenless. Put that on a feeder lid and then an empty nuk and lid on top. Taped the edges and reduced the entrance to about !/2 inch with #8 screen.I have found that the easiest way was to use my gallon jars (mayonnaise jars), with many 1/16 holes drilled into the jar covers but drilled according to the shape of the inner cover hole. Placed over the inner cover hole, with a deep super over it, they will take it down quite rapidly. No mess, no robbing, etc. Same jars that are used in the Fall and Spring feedings. OMTCW