Two of the three hives on site, that aren't mine, have contact feeders in place. Both of these feeders have leaked and there is a [not so] nice wet spot of syrup leaking from the brood chambers of both hives. Wandering around yesterday I noticed a big fat wasp competing with the bees for a share of the sugar.
My concern now is that we're advertising the apiary to all and sundry with a taste for sugar that there's free food going and that hence there's a danger of the hives getting robbed out. I'm trying to get the other beeks to replace these feeders, or just remove them, as soon as possible.
Bait hive has worked for the first time!!
11 years ago
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