I eat watermelon from my garden almost every morning for breakfast and give my bees the rinds. The bees and paper wasp fight over it. I have a feeding table set up next to a bird bath under a shade tree so they can have access to both in one spot.
👍great video. About the salt. A friend of mine was clearing an area for a small garden. He put approximately 1 inch of salt on the area where the garden was to be. In a few days after he put the salt down, it rained, not a heavy rain but enough to desolve the salt. In about a week or so, he noticed grass growing back. It came back thicker and greener than it ever was. So , salt actually helps.
With opening feeding, i end up with insane amounts of dead bees around the feeders. I used these bucket feeders as well as large coolers with straw so the bees can have a place to land. Any tips to reduce the bees from fighting, drowning, going crazy?
I had to make sure the buckets have the screw on lids. The pop on lids are no good. In the open plastic containers, I put several rocks of varying sizes and a lot of sticks. That seems to have stop a lot of bee deaths. I hope that helps.
So you have to fill this up pretty much every day, correct? Depending on the state, I'm in Georgia as well, I heard that if you have a certain number of colonies you can write the sugar off on taxes. Is this true? My wife wasn't very happy spending $20 every two days for bee sugar when "God had fed the bees before we got here."
If you don't believe what he's saying about feeding frenzies, Just try to extract honey a mile from the apiary during the dearth and notice how many dead bees you have to filter out of the honey.
Yes, bees are ruthless! My bees taught me that!
Thx David. Such a strange year. Quick Hard dearth this year.
I eat watermelon from my garden almost every morning for breakfast and give my bees the rinds. The bees and paper wasp fight over it. I have a feeding table set up next to a bird bath under a shade tree so they can have access to both in one spot.
I still have plenty of flowers blooming for the bees.
👍great video.
About the salt. A friend of mine was clearing an area for a small garden. He put approximately 1 inch of salt on the area where the garden was to be. In a few days after he put the salt down, it rained, not a heavy rain but enough to desolve the salt. In about a week or so, he noticed grass growing back. It came back thicker and greener than it ever was. So , salt actually helps.
I have less waste using a big tote with holes drilled around it. Thanks!!
With opening feeding, i end up with insane amounts of dead bees around the feeders. I used these bucket feeders as well as large coolers with straw so the bees can have a place to land. Any tips to reduce the bees from fighting, drowning, going crazy?
I had to make sure the buckets have the screw on lids. The pop on lids are no good. In the open plastic containers, I put several rocks of varying sizes and a lot of sticks. That seems to have stop a lot of bee deaths. I hope that helps.
your logic seems pretty sound
Please post a video link if you find the link on feeder.
I need to make me one of these .. One question, how do the ants react to these feeders ?
If ants do invade, move at least 20 feet away. It will disrupt their path.
Big black ants got into mine. It didn't stop the bee.
So you have to fill this up pretty much every day, correct? Depending on the state, I'm in Georgia as well, I heard that if you have a certain number of colonies you can write the sugar off on taxes. Is this true? My wife wasn't very happy spending $20 every two days for bee sugar when "God had fed the bees before we got here."
What is a dearth?
No nectar flow. They can starve. So they rob weaker colonies.
Its a time throughout the summer when nectar is almost non exciting.
@@davidhaught84 non existing, or the bees are just not that into it?
@@folee_edge Non existent. No flowers for Pollen
Salt comes from the earth lol not sure how it wud destroy it 😂
If you don't believe what he's saying about feeding frenzies, Just try to extract honey a mile from the apiary during the dearth and notice how many dead bees you have to filter out of the honey.
my bees are ignoring the open feeder.
Dearth ??
Time of year when bees have very little or no food resources.