In my Beekeeping book for Dummies, it tells you how to make sugar water for when the bees arrive in 6 days!! I'm getting excited now. So I'm making the sugar water as follows:
2.5 quarts of water brought to a rolling boil
Shut off stove
Add 5 lbs of granulated sugar...just regular sugar, no brown or fancy sugars will do
Let sugar melt in the water, stirring to help it along.
I will then refrigerate the sugar water until I need it on Saturday. Then I will have placed some sugar water in a spray bottle that I will spray on the bees as they are placed in my hive. Or, if I can't put them into the hive on the same day and need to wait another day, I would spray then two or three times a day to feed them. It also keeps them from noticing anything else (you) as they are licking the sugar water off each other.
I'll let you know how it goes. I'll be reading instructions all this week to make sure I do it right. And I did watch it being done which was very helpful.
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