Feeding Through a Tease of a Spring Flow

a Canadian Beekeeper’s Blog

[@RePetesBees]

Love your consistent posting! Love seeing what your doing in the field. Both good and bad things that happen, really helps me learn. Thanks!

[@brianbennett4374]

Good stuff thanks for sharing 👍

[@carloscrenz9433]

Impresionante 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝👏👏👏👏👏🌼😀

[@ronypadilla4587]

Those Queens!! can we get them to Toronto?.

[@mohammadbt7278]

Oh man down here we had our first harvest 🍯🐝

[@Bri_bees]

I bought an easy see plastic window for my vial at the bee show . It makes it easier to see but you have to keep it clean and it's a little fussy to get it installed.🤓 Probably better to just not get old.🙃

[@ETsBees]

Waiting waiting waiting…. We’re behind go go go go go

[@codycarter5263]

😂

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yep

[@_J.F_]

In 12 years of beekeeping I have never been feeding as much as I have needed to do the past roughly 8 months. With the weather being very changeable, and mostly too wet and too cold, the spring build-up has been delayed, then the spring flow was mostly washed away in rain, and now I am wondering what will happen with our typical June dearth before the main summer flow....if there is going to be any. More feeding I expect.

[@stanschleusener6444]

Will be curious how the Cordvan queen and bees do for you. I tried some years back and found they raise lots of bees but were starving while the rest of the bees in the yard were doing fine. I found cross bred queens did the best for me in wintering and honey production, 200 pounds per hive for many of them. That is in about the middle of Wis.

[@dobrivojebogic4452]

🤗

[@leroyharder4491]

Do you ever manage your tree lines by planting trees to create a succession of flowering times as the season progresses? On my property, I am doing so. On my out yards I am give small trees away to promote long term strong nectar flows. Linden is my main tree (2 types with slightly different flowering times) but am planting a few other species as well. I have a Manitoba maple that gives a huge amount of pollen at just the right time. You can buy small bare root trees for quite reasonable from Canadian nurseries. Season is a bit slow but temps still reach the high teens to low 20s even with a bit of rain. We need the rain so its good. A bit of a gap after dandylions but now a bunch of stuff is coming on line. We have rows of raspberries about to flower and the bees are hovering in anticipation.

[@ThatBeeMan]

Working between the raindrops!

[@aaronparis4714]

When will you start a strong flow ? I’m in Nova Scotia everything is kicking off good now

[@irenedjapa8805]

Mr Rainmaker here boy does that look beautiful my brother Ian I got so many bees I am slacking I need to get to it good to see everything's going good talk to you later

[@irenedjapa8805]

Hey Ian I wanted to tell you that the Beast that I got they're starting to get mean for some reason do you have any advice about that

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

They might be hungry, or mean bees

[@lomavistabeeco]

Nice lids!

[@lomavistabeeco]

Was that an A-tab I saw in that builder?

[@abdhamza]

Would you imagin that a beekeeper in Tripoli Libya is the first to play this video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

That’s cool 😎

[@Drewjober]

I have a few 2 deep colonies that are so packed with pollen and nectar that the new queen after the swarms has nowhere to lay and not enough bees to build foundation so I’m having queen right nucs building new frames

[@NevadaBeeMan-nq3po]

Ian, can you talk a little bit about your incubator? I need to buy a good one.

[@NusretMeherremov]

Hello beekeeper brother, how can I eliminate chalk disease in bees and how can I treat it? Please suggest me a solution and an answer. I wish you a good season

[@devlinchambers8054]

Re-queen will help but won't stop

[@lenturtle7954]

My girls yave been locked in the house by our weather Im glad i fed weekly . And it seems they are going to miss a lot of our wild fruit 😢

[@gallowaylights]

Do you pull the supers when feeding... this is the confusing part of feeding... or don't worry about it getting into the honey... it's all the same thing?🤔

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Feeding in the spring is always light and frequent (hand to mouth) to ensure there is no storage . If there is a flow, feed comes off. If there is no flow, syrup stored directly around brood

[@Ktish74]

One frame of brood split....Are you going to give them more brood later? Or is this enough for them to grow before winter?

[@tsor9]

How do you make the pattyes?

[@brianjpatton]

Hi Ain, what program do you use for video editing

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

iMovie

[@dcsblessedbees]

She is a pretty blonde.

[@trakist8281]

Already sown canola?

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Yes but we may have to switch crops towards a late canola field now

[@jonathanwallace6746]

It seems keeping bees in monocrapping areas is expensive! fed, feed feed. Flow. Feed feed feed. Never ending sugar syrup needed all year it seems!

[@NusretMeherremov]

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[@claudesully]

My whole mess seems to have gone backwards with all this rainy weather.... I quit feeding when the dandelions bloomed but it looks like I should still have kept feeding... This business sure is a guessing game...🥸🥸🥸

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

I hear ya