Beekeeping,Sugar Water Mixing,Beekeeper Beehive Honey bees feeding
georgiabees.blogspot.com Beekeeper mixing sugar water for beehive feeding. Beekeeping bee hive feed ideas, 1 or 5 gallon versions. Beekeepers bee syrup. Honey bees raise more brood when fed. Answers to how much, when, why, by John Pluta, Milledgeville Georgia.Don’t let your honeybees starve in winter,also good for spring build up stimulation . I’ve got on away from corn syrup feeding,worried about genetic modified corn and colony collapse disorder possible link. It’s also good to not forget adding medication only when needed. Fumagilin for nosema and maybe tylan for American foulbrood . Feedind is also a must when raising Queens or Queen cells, GAbeekeeping
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HFCS turns to HMF(hydroxymethylfurfural) when heated, similar to formaldehyde. Also HFCS is a by-product of a GMO crop which is designed to hurt insects. Brilliant, lets use a by-product of some thing that is designed to kill insects.
I’ve gotten totally away from using any types of sugar to feed my bees. I started wintering over in 3 deeps back in 07′. Been averaging 0-8% loss since then.
liquidgold2009
January 10, 2012 at 10:00 pm
nice
Efresh214
January 10, 2012 at 10:05 pm
@AJewFR0 I’ve not seen the research that says that yet. I like to review sources directly. Do you know what research specifically says feeding High Fructose Corn Syrup is bad? You are correct that Honey is mainly Fructose+Glucose, but that is EXACTLY the very definition of what HFCS is, so they seem very compatible with honey making, in my ignorance, perhaps. Sucrose (white sugar) can be broken down into Fructose and Glucose and often is “inverted” by beekeepers. But HFCS is already there..
chuckarama451
January 10, 2012 at 10:06 pm
@chuckarama451 there are several studies that show sugar water (corn syrup) effect hives negatively.. mostly because sugar is (glucose + sucrose) while Honey is (Glucose + Fructose) this is a large change in the bees traditional diet. This and the lack of 100’s of nutrients found in Honey, that is not found in sugar/ HFCS.
AJewFR0
January 10, 2012 at 10:40 pm
I’ve heard a few folks say they are not feeding corn syrup anymore, but I’ve never heard an explanation of why. But from a bee nutrition standpoint, don’t the bees need a mix of both sucrose and fructose sugars in their diet? So why cut out corn syrup? Seems like a good, cheap source of fructose to mix into the bee diet. Inverted sugar produces a similar effect by splitting sucrose into fructose and glucose. Seems a healthy bee would obtain all three in the wild… What am I missing?
chuckarama451
January 10, 2012 at 10:41 pm
Thanks for these hands-on videos. Not knowing any better I work from a couple of books but find your hands-on videos very useful … specially the re-use of everyday stuff, like your funnel.
epawlus77
January 10, 2012 at 11:32 pm
fantastic buddy
arundhanuparan100
January 10, 2012 at 11:53 pm
this is vital information i think,anyway, for beekeepers…
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medini2
January 11, 2012 at 12:09 am
Hello John,
Thank you for the teaching videos. How much salt would you use during winter in the 5 gallon bucket?
Thank You,
Larry
MrLarryhoward1
January 11, 2012 at 12:40 am
@shemphen9, Luke 24:42-43 (New King James Version)
42 So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.[a] 43 And He took it and ate in their presence.
*** He is Jesus in this passage and it clearly says, He ate the fish in their presence.
Also Jesus at passover and passover required eating specially prepared lamb. Luke 22:8-15
green2lean
January 11, 2012 at 1:06 am
@shemphen9, some parts of zeitgeist are interesting but it’s very discredited in other parts. Do you really believe politicians are reptile aliens from another planet or that they are part of some evil society? Even if they are part of an evil society many pictures used were misleading where they show politicians making “the sign of the devil.” At the University of Texas all students make that sign with their hand and President Bush’s daughter attended that school. It’s a longhorn cow.
green2lean
January 11, 2012 at 2:03 am
@green2lean i see your point too…but i give to the late swarm honey which i have store from the other kolony…….if we really love them and respect them we should do that..but of course if you dont have honey then sugar maybe is better then nothing……and sure..i was living in the inidan jungle for 7 mounts and the jungle was full of fruitd and eatable plants….and yes if there was no other food i will also eating meat after making a pray for the animal which i was going to kill..om
shemphen9
January 11, 2012 at 2:53 am
@green2lean jesus gived fish to people but is he didint eat it himself….yes i didnt walk with jesus wasmy first master and i did a big research about him…not only from the bibble cause we all know that the bibble is made 300 years after him and just to controll people and in the 315 ac the roman imperatore costantino changed parts of it to riunite all the cristian….have you seen zeigeist??!!…..take a look at it …..once more…..FREE THE BEES 🙂
shemphen9
January 11, 2012 at 3:34 am
@shemphen9, I never said we should feed them sugar but when you capture a swarm late in the summer there is not always food readily available for them. If they didn’t need the sugar they would not eat it. During the nectar flow if you feed them sugar water they don’t use it. Other times of the year they go through it like candy. They eat it because they need it. If you were starving you’d eat meat.
green2lean
January 11, 2012 at 4:34 am
@green2lean @green2lean have you try to give them hamburger???!!!! be serious dear brother…..you would like if just before you get paid i come there and take all your money you did made by your hard work and giving you instead some toilette paper??!!!im sure you will complain….you should always leave enougth honey for them …..i never have to feet my bees..they got their own honey….this is what bees are suppost to eat,honey not sugar,,,,wake up..
shemphen9
January 11, 2012 at 4:58 am
@shemphen9, you are what is known in the bible as a hypocrite. You go around casting stones. Jesus ate fish. It is in the bible. Also, Jesus likely ate lamb on the Sabbath. Do not pretend to know what Jesus did, or did not, eat. You did not walk with Jesus every day of His life. You sit on your mountain looking down as if you are Moses who has been give written stones from God. It’s probably not good to give bees sugar water I agree with you on that point.
green2lean
January 11, 2012 at 5:15 am
@green2lean have you try to give them hamburger???!!!! be serious dear brother…..you would like if just before you get paid i come there and take all your money you did made by your hard work and giving you instead some ttte paper??!!!im sure you will complain….leave the honey to them..is their food
shemphen9
January 11, 2012 at 5:27 am
@green2lean dont do to others what you dont want others do to you…….do you think jesus was stilling the honey from the bees and give them sugary water??!!!!ahhahahahah..1th you should know that the bible is base on the ancient sumerian text..man made from clay….adam..the flod…the cross..is all stuff from the ancient sumerian clay tablets wrote more then 8000 years ago…and yes meat is not food…but im sure you as a good cristian you eat meat..sorry to tell you but jesus was vegetarian
shemphen9
January 11, 2012 at 6:14 am
@shemphen9, well I suppose that depends on your belief system. I suppose you think that meat is also not food? Animals each other. This is the course of nature, God’s design or however you choose to look at it. My belief is in God and the bible has a prophecy about Jesus that He would eat curds and honey and know good from evil.
I respect your beliefs whatever they are, but your beliefs are no greater than mine. Unless you are God or a god then you are only a man like me. Right?
green2lean
January 11, 2012 at 7:05 am
@green2lean ..bees are on planet earth from more then 45 milions years…longer befor man….so they can easely live with out us……when i said free the bees i mean we should starts to respect them and not just missused them….ccd is the resoults of various factors boths materialy and energeticaly…i have bees but only once a year in the beginning of summer i take one frame of honey….and i use it as madicine…because this is what it is A MEDICINE and not something to put on the pancake
shemphen9
January 11, 2012 at 7:34 am
@shemphen9, what do you mean by “free” the bees? You mean like free the dogs, cats, cattle, zoo animals, etc. and leave them to die? Or do you just mean don’t feed them sugar water? CCD is most likely caused by neonic pesticides. The CCD started at the same time they started going mainstream.
green2lean
January 11, 2012 at 7:37 am
Has anyone every tried feeding them pieces of sugar cane?
green2lean
January 11, 2012 at 8:20 am
leave the honey to the bees….white sugar is not good even for us……the reason of ccd( colony collapse desorder ) relay also on how we treat our lovely bees…..sugar water is one of them…..free the bees….and bying doing so you will free your self…om mani padme hung
shemphen9
January 11, 2012 at 9:17 am
Does anyone know of an easy to make feeder using rubbish like 2L bottles? I want to start feeding my bees now but dont have the cash to buy a feeder.
Hamish121212
January 11, 2012 at 9:51 am
how much salt do you mix in for the winter feeding
slacker361
January 11, 2012 at 10:19 am