Remember to feed the Honey bees

In our area here in North Florida the nights are getting colder, soon the cold days will be upon us. Nectar is scarce and the bees need to have plenty of stores on the hive. If the colonies are on the light side, then we feed. A couple of months ago we where feeding the bees a thin sugar syrup to boost the population of all our colonies. Now that we have a boom in population we want to give them a heavier sugar syrup, syrup that they will store!

Today, we’ve been feeding the bees lots of 2:1 sugar syrup to insure that all of the colonies put on plenty of weight. We want nice fat bees going into the cold months, so that come Spring the bees are alive and hardy! We are keeping our fingers crossed and hoping all of our colonies are strong, we hope your bees do too. Happy beekeeping and remember to feed, feed, feed your bees!

Santiago Wallace

Wallace Family Apiary