Stimulate Brood Rearing Using Bee Food Supplement
To stimulate brood rearing, beekeepers have a preference: they can either move hives onto breeding conditions before major honey flows, taking advantage of different flowering species, or they can artificially arouse their hives with supplementary feeding. This is mostly an economic decision as there are costs related to both moving bees and feeding substitutes and supplements. The word ‘supplements’ recommends that there is already some naturally occurring pollen and/or nectar in the area for the bees and the beekeeper is making up the shortfall by feeding the hive strategic supplements. Supplements have the dietary mechanism that are lacking in the field as well as make up the necessary volume a colony may eat. ‘Substitutes’ suggests that either nectar or pollen, or both, are completely lacking in the field. Why bee nutrition supplement is important? Feeding bees in some cases is possible, even though bees do not seem to do as well on honey compared to sugar syrup. It might be b...