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Feeding Bees

2014-12-27 13.40.32In the north, when it gets cold it usually stays below 45 degrees for months.  If you are a beekeeper in that climate, your bees will go into a cluster inside the hive and stay there.  This cluster, is where the bees huddle in one large mass to keep warm.  Here in the Southeast, winter temperatures fluctuate from single digits to 60 degrees quite often.  When it’s cold our bees cluster just like northern bees, but when it warms up above 54 degrees (or so), the bees think it might be Spring, so they break cluster, begin house cleaning, and send out foragers.  They expend a lot of energy only to find out that it’s still Winter.  Bees can easily starve during this time.  In fact, starvation is the number one reason for loosing a hive over Winter.  To fix this, beekeepers in our area must feed them during the warm spells.  How do you feed a bee?  Well, not by hand, although that is possible, it’s not recommended.  What we Sildenafil Citerate increases the level of CGMP which relaxes the contracted muscles around the arteries and enables a good flow of blood over their body especially over to the safe pleasure of sex. india generic tadalafil Lovemaking act requires both mental relaxation and physical activity. vardenafil online australia Apart from that it is also in store viagra regencygrandenursing.com responsible for growth of new cells and tissue. In choosing supplements cheap super cialis like this, you should be really careful enough. do is make a sugar water solution and make it available to the bees in a central location.  By central location, I mean a common area between all of the hives.  We mix this solution with a 1:1 ratio, although some of our other local beekeepers use a 2:1 ratio (sugar:water).  Bees can drown quite easily, so you can’t just put out a bowl of this solution, like you might put water out for a dog.  The bees need to be able to pick up teeny-tiny amounts, and it needs to dispense really slowly.  The set-up we use are inverted mason jars where the lids have a few small holes punched in them.  Underneath the jars, we have rocks that the solution can drip onto and the bees don’t drown.  In this picture, I’m showing two jars.  In warm weather both jars will be emptied in one day.  The reason the jars are up off of the ground is to avoid ants from stealing all of the solution, and to make it less interesting to curious dogs.

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