Know the Significance of Bee Supplements
To arouse brood rearing,
beekeepers have a preference: they can move hives onto breeding conditions before
major honey flows, taking benefit of different flowering species, or they can
artificially arouse their hives with supplementary feeding. Supplements have nutritional components that are deficient in the field as well as make up
the required volume a colony may consume. ‘Substitutes’ suggests that either
nectar or pollen, or both, are completely lacking in the field.
Honey bee protein powder will
stimulate brood rearing as long as the queen and the bees have some nectar
coming in. So you might want to use both a powder supplement feed and sugar
syrup just to stimulate the beehive to build numbers before a honey flow.
Importance of bee protein supplement
Bees need a diverse and complex
diet. They collect pollen and nectar, which offer an incredibly rich set of
nutritional components. They get carbohydrates from the nectar they collect and
the honey they consequently make. They get protein from pollen. Together these
food sources offer the majority of what bees need.
Variety is also essential. A
focus on a single source of pollen or nectar can rob bees of important
minerals. For this reason, the colony will deliberately collect nectar and
pollen from a wide range of sources, if present. Keep that in mind as you consider
just how much you can save bees with feeding. Nothing can provide them with the diversity and natural elements of the resources available outside of
the hive.
Thus, when there is not enough
pollen in the area for the bees to forage or it may be too cold, you can
supplement the bees by using bee supplements.
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