Learn essential first-year beekeeping practices: feeding, protecting your hive, and prioritizing colony growth over honey harvest for long-term success.
Learn when and how to feed honey bees, including the correct sugar syrup ratios for spring stimulation vs. fall storage, to prevent starvation and support colony growth.
Learn how responsible feeding practices ensure pure honey quality. Discover the critical timing and hive management techniques for unadulterated honey production.
Learn how the inverted pale feeder uses vacuum and surface tension for safe, self-regulating syrup delivery to your bees, minimizing waste and drowning risk.
Compare hive-top, division board, and entrance feeders. Learn to choose the right feeder to prevent robbing, minimize disturbance, and support colony health.
Learn why open feeding sugar to bees attracts robbing, spreads disease, and wastes resources. Discover safe, in-hive feeding methods to protect your colony.
Learn how to feed bees outside the hive (open feeding), its significant risks like robbing and disease, and why internal hive feeding is the safer, professional method.
Learn when and why beekeepers must feed bees to prevent starvation, establish new hives, and ensure colony health. Essential reading for all beekeepers.