Particularly if you have just removed all the supers with all their stored surplus. As mentioned before, in Somerset the main flow has finished by end July and adverse weather in August can catch you out if the supers are off.
You may be sitting looking happily at a load of full buckets whilst the bees are struggling to find anything in a cereal or improved grassland forage desert to keep them going. If there is nothing much in the brood box I usually give them all a gallon of syrup to tide them over before the main feed period later on and before the varroa treating.
I consider a feed now being converted into baby bees an excellent investment all round
You may be sitting looking happily at a load of full buckets whilst the bees are struggling to find anything in a cereal or improved grassland forage desert to keep them going. If there is nothing much in the brood box I usually give them all a gallon of syrup to tide them over before the main feed period later on and before the varroa treating.
I consider a feed now being converted into baby bees an excellent investment all round
