The Easiest Thing You Can Do to Keep Your Bees Alive

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  • Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024

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  • @GEEZBEEZ
    @GEEZBEEZ Год назад +1

    Great advice. We have had a warm winter in Oklahoma overall. Late freezes this past two weeks. My hives have gone through 8-10 lbs of sugar. Normally that would last to nectar flow in April. Not this year. Added some more today. Thanks for the video.

    • @BeensBees
      @BeensBees  Год назад +1

      I met my wife in Tulsa! Nothing but good memories of Oklahoma.

  • @abggk2
    @abggk2 Год назад

    Do you know what works even better? Leave them their honey, the part that they need to survive. The bees become unhealthy if you feed them sugar.

    • @BeensBees
      @BeensBees  Год назад

      Most of my two-deep hives are >150 lbs heading into winter. Some colonies ramp up early, some clusters stay in the center of the hive and don’t eat the outside frames, some are monsters that keep a massive population. If you don’t supplemental feed in my area you will have some dead-outs from starvation.
      Also, i haven’t seen any evidence that feeding sugar during the winter harms colony health. All my hives seem fine. All 9 of my hives I went into the winter with are alive as of today and the hives that took down more sugar last year didn’t struggle in spring/summer.

    • @amurray001
      @amurray001 Год назад

      Yeah, there is NO evidence that sucrose is bad for bees. “Leaving bees alone”, results in dead bees.