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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