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How to Deliver Food
After you make your food of choice, you can deliver it to the bees in a number of ways.
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Sugar Syrup Bag
In the Package Bees Installation video, Maryann is using a plastic freezer bag full of sugar syrup.
To deliver food this way, partially fill the bag with syrup, make sure the zipper has a secure seal, lay the bag on top of the frames, and poke a few holes in the bag with a toothpick or sharp knife. Small holes prevent drowning of bees and excessive leaking of syrup.
This is an inexpensive, easy, and very effective way to feed bees. We prefer this method over the more expensive options because it:
- Keeps the food where the bees need it
- Prevents drowning
- Reduces robbing by bees from other colonies and by other creatures
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Other Feeding Options
Other options that might work for you include:
- Boardman feeder, or front-entrance feeder
- Bucket feeder, an upside down bucket with small holes poked in the lid; sits on top of the frames
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Bucket feeder surrounded by newspaper for insulation
- Hive top feeder—probably the best-looking option, though much more expensive than the plastic bag method
- Quail waterers
- Front-entrance feeder
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Commercial front-entrance feeder partially removed to show detail
