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I've always been confused by that. You can't sell sugar syrup, and also wouldn't want to eat it, but if you feed your bees, like in the spring and then in the summer dearth, how do you keep straight if you might have sugar syrup or not?
My overwintered hive I'm not feeding, but I did have sugar cakes in there through the winter. Might they have stored that away, in the beginning of spring? If I don't feed them thru the summer now, will they starve?
My new package that will be coming I don't think I'm going to give syrup to. I have plenty of honey frames from a deadout overwinter, and I'm thinking I'll just give them those instead of feeding them syrup, so they can have the healthy stuff. I kind of hate to waste good honey, but it seems a healthier alternative for them than syrup, plus I'll know there's no sugar in my new honey, just pure honey.
But anyway, how to do you time syrup feeding so it doesn't interrupt with your honey supply, for new and existing hives? I'm confused about feeding.
My overwintered hive I'm not feeding, but I did have sugar cakes in there through the winter. Might they have stored that away, in the beginning of spring? If I don't feed them thru the summer now, will they starve?
My new package that will be coming I don't think I'm going to give syrup to. I have plenty of honey frames from a deadout overwinter, and I'm thinking I'll just give them those instead of feeding them syrup, so they can have the healthy stuff. I kind of hate to waste good honey, but it seems a healthier alternative for them than syrup, plus I'll know there's no sugar in my new honey, just pure honey.
But anyway, how to do you time syrup feeding so it doesn't interrupt with your honey supply, for new and existing hives? I'm confused about feeding.