Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: tbrinck on April 08, 2013, 04:18:12 pm
-
I sucessfully installed my bee package a few weeks ago and have been feeding them sugar water which they started to hit heavily this week. i have also noticed that they are a lot more active in the past few days i figure its because of the nice wea, ther. I'm shall be doing my 1st througho inspection within the next few days. I know the queen was released but have yet to find her. ok so time for the question. yesterday i noticed the beeswere bringing back pollen to the hive in a decent amount should i stop feeding them sugar water mixture? Going to be wiring their next ten frames tonight. should i be worried about their boom in activity ?
-
I would keep feeding until they stop taking it or they get the brood nest built out. If you are running double deep hives stop once both deeps are built out.
-
Don't rush the second box until bees are covering most of the frames in the first box and 8 of the 10 frames have the wax drawn. Too much empty space will slow the groth when nights are still cool.