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Bee starvation warning. Can you help?

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Ciri · 07/08/2023 14:00

So there is currently a bee starvation warning out. The weather hasn’t been kind and bees are really struggling. Bee keepers are having to feed their bees and this impacts on all of our pollinators since they all compete for the same food source.

If you could put out a sugar solution or some fondant icing dampened with water that can really help to see them through. It isn’t their ideal food source but it keeps them alive until the hive recovers. Good for the kids to do as a summer holiday activity too.

we need more flowers Flowers

OP posts:
CalistoNoSolo · 07/08/2023 17:56

MemyselfandI2019 · 07/08/2023 15:43

Thank you so much for posting this. It been an awful year for us bee keepers. We had an amazing crop this time last year, this year is literally nothing. We've had to start feeding the hives (fondant/sugar solution) already just to keep the colonies going. There seems to be lots that have swarmed this year too.There is no colour to our garden and fields this summer for lack of flowers (thus their food) we will be lucky to enter winter with any hives at this rate 😢 this summer has really fucked up nature and the bees 💔

I'm in the cotswolds and that's not my experience at all. The two hives in my garden are thriving, the beekeeper hasn't had to feed them at all and they are producing lots of honey. All the the verges are still full of flowers and I'm seeing lots of meadow flowers too. Maybe it's a regional or local problem?

Keepingthingsinteresting · 07/08/2023 18:59

Ciri · 07/08/2023 14:55

I said if it’s a swarm it’s likely to be honey bees. Bumble bees do not swarm.

anyway I really am leaving the thread. This wasn’t meant to be an argument.

Sorry you’ve had such a hard time OP. People can be arseholes.

Abracadabra12345 · 08/08/2023 08:21

@CalistoNoSolo Thank you for telling me about the ivy - I had no idea!

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