How to cook the syrup to bees

How to cook the syrup to bees: recipe, proportions.

There are periods, When honey bees do not have enough for food, so the ability to prepare and distribute sugar syrup should be a basic skill of every beekeeper.

The proportions of sugar syrup to bees may be different.

Such fertilization is widely used in practice as a replacement for honey in the case of natural or artificially created shortage.

In such cases, the insects begin to feel hungry, because they can not eat properly and fully.

Further, this leads to problems: they are worried, reduced efficiency of working individuals, reduces the number of offspring, increased risk of contracting various infections and other bee diseases.

Prolonged fasting may end death family.

Sugar syrup varies in consistency.

The degree of density depends on the amount of sugar, dissolved.

Finished syrup can be thick or liquid, varies according the use of such compositions as for program purposes, and on the season.

1. Lack of basic food of bees
2. The proportions of sugar for bees feeding
3. How to cook the sugar syrup to bees
4. How to distribute the syrup to bees

Недолік основної їжі бджіл – меду, may occur in different situations:

1. In a protracted spring can occur when all the winter feed stock has eaten, but no heat, to bloom The first honey plants.
2. In a cold rainy summer the bees in the hive sit and rarely fly for tricks, therefore brought before ending fast food. If this lasts long, they need to feed.
3. Cottage syrup spring or fall has a stimulating effect on bdzholosimyu and its reproduction.
4. Feeding sweet liquid if necessary and select merchandise in large quantities of honey, when the left and it is clearly not enough for the winter. Therefore, give syrup dressing, from which the bees make them fall winter honey.
5. Apply the solution and medicinal purposes, just because bees use drugs will not, а якщо покласти його в сироп – охоче з’їдять.

Therefore, each apiarist should know how to cook the syrup to their bees.

Of course, natural honey, manufactured and maintained by bees, much more adapted to their food, because it contains all the necessary substances, minerals and vitamins, necessary for their proper development and functioning.

Sugar syrup, being the only carbohydrate food, does not include all vital components, so the insects needed.

Nevertheless, in the absence of sugar honey honey bees is used as an alternative food source.

In the practice of beekeeping made use of dense solutions in early spring, before the flyby and fall to replenish the ones winter stocks.

A liquid syrups used for spring-summer pidkormok.

The reason is that, it is more like a natural medosbor and the processing in warm weather bees easier to evaporate excess liquid from it.

Read more: Календар бджоляра – роботи по місяцям.

The proportions of sugar for bees feeding

Sugar syrup is essentially a very simple solution, що складається з усього двох інгредієнтів – цукру і води.

Prepare it easy, General need to know the ratio of sugar and water.

But in fact, sugar is lighter than water and occupies a smaller volume, so if 1 kg dissolved in it 1 l water, you get about 1, 6 l solution in ratio 1 to 1 (50%).

However, the bees feed set in volume, expressed in liters.

How to be, if you want to feed the bees more or less dense liquid feed, is prepared in other relationships?

To calculate the necessary amount of syrup to bees in any proportions, you want to cook at once, convenient to use the appropriate tables.

They have all the necessary information available, dosage and time of use and output litrazh.

This data is rounded by water and sugar. To prepare another quantity of food should increase in proportion to the weight and ingredients litrazh.

Read more: Як готувати бджіл до зимівлі – прості правила.

40% -th sugar syrup, table:

number of syrup	proportions	calculation ingredients	Time use
1 l		0,5 kg of sugar in 0,7 liters
5 l	1 to 1,5 (40%)	2,3 kg of sugar in 3,5 liters	Spring for the development of families in the summer when there is no honey plants
10 l		4,6 kg of sugar in 7,0 liters

50% -th sugar syrup, table:

number of syrup	proportions	calculation ingredients	Time use
1 l		0, 6 kg of sugar in 0, 6 liters
5 l	1 to 1 (50%)	3,1 kg of sugar in 3,1 liters	In the spring after flyby
10 l		6, 2 kg of sugar in 6, 2 liters

60% -th sugar syrup, table:

number of syrup	proportions	calculation ingredients	Time use
1 l		0,8 kg of sugar in 0,6 liters
5 l	1,5 to 1 (60%)	4 kg sugar sand on th 2,7 liters	In the spring and fall to the flyby as a winter feeding
10 l		8 kg of sugar in 5,4 liters

70% -th sugar syrup, table:

number of syrup	proportions	calculation ingredients	Time use
1 l		0,9 kg of sugar in 0, 5 liters
5 l	2 to 1 (70%)	4,6 kg of sugar in 2,3 liters	In the spring and fall to the flyby as a winter feeding
10 l		9, 0 kg of sugar in 4,5 liters

How to cook the sugar syrup to bees

Приготування сиропу для підгодівлі – справа проста, Beekeeper but requires attentiveness and accuracy.

Depends on the quality of the finished product, Health and insects used it.

properly, cooking process:

1. Потрібна буде відповідна ємність – відро або каструля, preferably enameled. Their size is selected based on the final volume of the product.
2. Clean water volume, which corresponds to the chosen recipe, this results in vessel.
3. She put on the fire and brought to a boil.
4. Now is the time to pour sugar. This should be done gradually, stirring constantly fluid, not to syrup Prygorov.
5. At the first sign of boiling vessel is removed from the heat (no need to cook), cover with lid and allow to cool to a warm state.

As already cooled syrup may be added if necessary, teas and various herbs medicines.

For better processing syrup bees add some honey beekeepers of up to 10%.

It is, a composition that is more useful for them.

Read more: Медова сита для бджіл – приготування.

How to distribute the syrup to bees

Syrup, intended for feeding insects, should be fresh. Ideally, it generally should be prepared only once.

in addition, it should be warm, Bee eating bad cold.

Bees can deliver it in ways:

1. Pour into a special feeder and install it at the top of the hive.
2. Pour in the bank and, turning her neck down, set to stand shallow.
3. Rozfasuvaty in plastic bags, tie tightly and put them on the frame, before pre-clean for holstyk, that bees could come to feeders.

If the syrup is cooked properly, Bee happy to eat the following feeding.

Pidhorivshyy, а також який довго зберігався – краще не давати, because it is bad for them.

Sugar syrup as feeding has some advantages, but still without honey bees can not do.

Excessive syrup disables them, so you should use it wisely, applying only in extreme cases.