Author Topic: Good to the last drop (pictures of bees and boardman style feeders)  (Read 3257 times)

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Offline Bamabww

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I found sugar on sale this weekend at Sam's club and bought 25 pounds ($8.90) to use in the new boardman feeders I got a couple of weeks ago with the gourd bees. I placed the feeders on a trailer with the bee hives about 100 yards away. It took them about 3 hours to find the feeders but when they did, they went to town. After they emptied the feeders as much as possible, I removed the yellow container and let them get the last few drops. Some had even squeezed through and were inside the yellow container when I pulled them off. I tried a new recipe this time as well: 8 pounds of sugar, 8 pints of water, 15 drops of Spearmint oil and 15 drops of lemon grass oil.  They really like it.








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Re: Good to the last drop (pictures of bees and boardman style feeders)
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2014, 08:06:50 pm »
Excellent photos Wayne.  Your bees look like those fat Italian bees and I see fuz on them, especially the bottom photo, that would indicate to me they are youngins?

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Re: Good to the last drop (pictures of bees and boardman style feeders)
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2014, 08:26:46 pm »
Nice photos. I tried a couple of those chicken style feeders last fall for the hive in my back yard to clean up the cappings wax. When they emptied the feeders there were a few dozen actually inside the darn things trying to figure a way out!
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