

Winter Feeding
As temperatures begin to fall it is important to assure the bees have enough stores or food to last through the winter. However, having a lot of honey in the hive does not necessarily prevent the bees from starving and once the temperatures fall, you cannot feed sugar syrup. The bees will not take cold syrup. And even with 2 to 2 syrup they will not expend the energy and cannot evaporate it sufficiently to be able to use it. In colder weather bees will cluster to keep the q