To what temperature can you do wet soak sponges at entrance?
Thanks.
Thanks.
Spraying water on sugar bricks got me through starvation months
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You solve the "water problem" by simply covering your bees with plastic in late winter/early spring - condensation is useful when they start brooding up.
In this picture I additionally added a water bottle of course (a typical cold April here for any foraging to speak of - any sponges left outside will be hardly useful).
So, just add a water bottle with a little punctured hole directly onto the frames and done, if don't like the plastic.
Don't need to be opening bees every few days or wetting the sponges.
In this picture I additionally added a water bottle of course (a typical cold April here for any foraging to speak of - any sponges left outside will be hardly useful).
So, just add a water bottle with a little punctured hole directly onto the frames and done, if don't like the plastic.
Don't need to be opening bees every few days or wetting the sponges.
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As far as spraying water on the dry sugar - it depends of course.
In cold winter cases, this is not needed as there is enough condensation as it is, and regular spraying will only add more unnecessary water into the hive while also disturbs the bees.
They eat through the stone-hard fondant like nothing - see pic.
In cold winter cases, this is not needed as there is enough condensation as it is, and regular spraying will only add more unnecessary water into the hive while also disturbs the bees.
They eat through the stone-hard fondant like nothing - see pic.
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