DIY Bee Feeder - Flow Hive 🐝🍯

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[@FrederickDunn]

This is soooo nice, I've been wondering about your winter feeding solutions for flowhives :) I personally don't recommend landing board/entry feeders, but is there one that fits the FH2 entrance and works that way? I find the entry to be too thin. I particularly enjoyed the questions you had coming in from all over the world! AND, an unrelated question... your videographer, did you just ad a Ronin? Or some other Video Steadicam system? It's dramatically different from your previous videos. In the Northeastern United States where I reside, 50-100 lbs of stored honey for wintering is pretty standard, but this past winter our bees didn't even finish a medium super of honey so there was a lot of surplus. Thank you as always for this interesting series :)

[@FlowHive]

Hey Fred, thanks for the great questions. In regards to the video, it was shot with our usual setup and our videographers steady hands 😁

[@FrederickDunn]

@@FlowHive :)

[@gunnerjonah7183]

instablaster.

[@LaraLovesBees]

Tip: we bartenders simply pour the amount of sugar we need into a metal or heat-resistant bowl, boil water in a kettle (we actually have very hot water on tap), pour the hot water into the bowl and then stir until dissolved. There is no risk of caramelizing and it takes very little time. If you need the syrup to be cooled down quickly, use less water when dissolving and just add ice cubes to cool it down and dilute the syrup simultaneously. Hope this is helpful! Thanks for another informative video!

[@rhianshephard]

Brilliant. Thanks for this. 👍👍👍

[@ky42]

New bee keeper here, Great vid, thanks :)

[@FlowHive]

Hi Mike, thanks :) And if there's anything else we can do to help please let us know. - Leah.

[@reneebrown2968]

I've tried open feeding bees by putting sticks and pine needles and ended up with a bucket of drowned bees. Try a piece of Styrofoam with holes drilled in it. The foam floats on the syrup and it will allow them to drink without them being in the syrup. Much less drowning

[@jenniferw8963]

I think top feeding is definitely the best. Don't have to deal with guard bees / robbers and drowning. Thanks for sharing. I had an idea btw. How about a tupperware dish with holes drilled in the center bottom, along with a wood frame to hold it in place, centered with the hole. That way you can take the roof off , pour in some sugar water and not worry about the bees drowning?

[@FlowHive]

JG, I will pass this suggestion on to Cedar :) Thanks for watching and commenting - Leah.

[@jenniferw8963]

@@FlowHive Also the housing between roof and super could be really shallow if using a shallow tray.

[@wonder_bee]

Thanks for the nice video, the only thing I would argue - is plastic bags for feeding - this is producing unnecessarily plastic waste. In my place, for plastic bags there is two ways of recycling: 1) people just burn it 2) it goes to trash and will stay forever on trash yards. When you think about one plastic bag doesn't sound like a big deal, but when the bigger half of commercial beekeepers in my country doing it, that's a massive pollution.

[@FlowHive]

Hey, yes we completely agree with you on minimising the use of plastic as much as possible. These feeders are actually made of glass jars. All plastics used in the production of our Flow Frames are the highest quality, food grade plastics - free from BPA, bisphenol-S (BPS) and any other bisphenol compounds. You can read more about the plastic we use here. Our Flow Frames are not single-use plastic - they have been designed to be used again and again, lasting for many years with proper care. At the end of their life-cycle, Flow Frames are able to be recycled. Please check with your local council and resource management centre for recycling regulations in your local area. As a company, we care deeply for the impacts our business has on our environment and the world at large, which has been recognised by B Corp certification. B Corp is an accreditation awarded to a company that, after a rigorous assessment process, meets the highest standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency, and aspires to use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. You can read more about Flow and B Corp here. We are always innovating and looking at other potential materials that do not rely on fossil fuels, and hope to one day have an alternative material option for our Flow Frames :)

[@ky42]

Ive seen info that said if using a nail to make holes that the holes should be punched from the inner side of lid due to the small pointed ends causing issue with bees proboscis if punched from outside of lid. Whats your info about that? Thanks.

[@FlowHive]

That makes sense, Mike. Thanks for sharing this info. I'll pass it on to Cedar :) - Leah.

[@donutplanetstudio8866]

dope!

[@OrphanRed]

Don't feed them sugar. It lacks the minerals they need to do well and stay healthy. Keep some of their own honey for them.

[@aminullahabdulrahimloveint3056]

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[@thesuggahshackfarm]

This is a very beginner question, but how does the Queen eat?

[@thesuggahshackfarm]

Assuming that there is a Queen excluder in place...

[@ahmeterkanaltay1527]

when we feed the bees by sugar water can worker bees kill the queen bee if worker cant go out because of the rain. and how often and how many litres should ı feed my bees for brooding and laying in the spring.

[@beskidzywieckipasieka9652]

👍👍👍🖐

[@darrencormier8809]

How do you make sure they just consume the sugar and not store it as honey?

[@FlowHive]

Bees will store it before they consume it this is natural, for this reason it is best to not feed if your bees are bringing in nectar, it is important for them to not become reliant on feeding. -Kieran

[@TheKensultant]

Can I use Organic Unrefined Pure Cane sugar for the nectar mixture?

[@FlowHive]

It is best to use white sugar to avoid making the bees sick, this means you are feeding them a sugar source that is straight sugar, it might not have the nutrients that honey does, but it is a pure energy source. -Kieran

[@jimnewton4364]

I have been feeding my new brood box for a week and half and they have used about a litre and a half of syrup. When I checked the box they had stored the syrup in about a 1/4 of the cells . Is this normal?

[@dalelusk2151]

How about if we live in Hot moisture area ,we have flowers until November, Do we still need to feed them? Thanks.

[@FlowHive]

Likely you will not need to, but it really depends on what you are experiencing with your bees. If you have a colony that is struggling feeding them can be really helpful. -Kieran

[@brucelindley3628]

What is the best type of sugar to use?

[@krazykracken1159]

Nice video👍

[@dyscdm1674]

How about if you live by state and in a apartment building yet county area. I watch as they destroyed a hive on our wall. What can I do for them . Landlord don't want them in the walls outside. 😶🤔😭😢

[@denissavic500]

dys cdM 2 options either you buy a hive box with a few racks you dio honey on them and drop somehow the whole hive there or u just get a cardboardbox snd droo them in there then drive simewhere outside the city and releaae the box

[@bradgoliphant]

Do you no longer sell the brood boxes with the observation windows?

[@SageandStoneHomestead]

Would the honey super without the flow frames work?

[@bradgoliphant]

@@SageandStoneHomestead sure. You could put regular frames in their

[@Tofail_Hossain]

I loved your Bee hive but can't avail to buying for High prices.

[@mantobrew]

You have a very simple choice then

[@KMcKee-qn6bo]

Tofail.... You’re being rude and your comment is an ugly, hateful thing to say. Stop berating a company that is dedicated to caring for it’s customers and providing quality products at a very reasonable price.

[@tilamex]

Muy buena HISTORIA

[@yusufaxverdov64]

Super

[@wendyme4835]

I have found a recipe that uses white sugar (either 1:1 or 2:1 solution), a dissolved multi-vitamin tablet, citric acid and a couple drops of lemongrass oil. This has proven to be more acceptable to my bees than just plain sugar water and they are also more active on this feed.

[@echochamber8350]

Get to the point already! 2 mins into the video and still talk talk talk. Edit: 4:21 before he (finally!) gets started on the feeder

[@oldAndNtheWay]

I don't know why I ever subscribed to your online bee keeping school... all the videos you have on the school site are here on YT for free. smh. canceling my subscription to your school now...

[@BradGrassforest]

You take a lot of time to say nothing

[@aminullahabdulrahimloveint3056]

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