The weather at my hives has not been great, rain, near freezing 2 or 3 days last week. I thought nectar and pollen
would be scarce. Hive check on Saturday showed good amounts of honey and pollen all through the hive.
They were backfilling the 3rd 8 frame medium brood box I put on a month ago.I did feed sugar for the first time
about a month ago. Each hive got roughly 2-3 lbs of dry white sugar. I wonder if what I was seeing could be
sugar honey. SO the question is how much space would honey from 2-3 lbs of sugar take up? I cant imagine 2-3
lbs of sugar would feed a hive for 3 weeks and have leftover to fill frames. Would it?? HOw long would it take
the hive to process 2-3 lbs? I do not have any idea about this. I am trying to figure if the flow is on heavy or the
sugar is much longer lasting than I think. ??
On another note, my new packages are doing well and all seem fairly gentle. The big issue is queen is running
low on laying space!! I have two empty hives with drawn comb right next to my hives though, hoping any swarm
will enter my empties.
would be scarce. Hive check on Saturday showed good amounts of honey and pollen all through the hive.
They were backfilling the 3rd 8 frame medium brood box I put on a month ago.I did feed sugar for the first time
about a month ago. Each hive got roughly 2-3 lbs of dry white sugar. I wonder if what I was seeing could be
sugar honey. SO the question is how much space would honey from 2-3 lbs of sugar take up? I cant imagine 2-3
lbs of sugar would feed a hive for 3 weeks and have leftover to fill frames. Would it?? HOw long would it take
the hive to process 2-3 lbs? I do not have any idea about this. I am trying to figure if the flow is on heavy or the
sugar is much longer lasting than I think. ??
On another note, my new packages are doing well and all seem fairly gentle. The big issue is queen is running
low on laying space!! I have two empty hives with drawn comb right next to my hives though, hoping any swarm
will enter my empties.
