The Best Way to Feed Bees in Winter

Feed your bees during winter by providing them with enough honey stores – the amount will depend on their region. If they don’t get enough, feeding solid sugar or capped honey might help them out. Here are a few methods …

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What Bees Eat Wood

Wood-boring carpenter bees (pictured above) can cause substantial structural damage to roof shingles, siding, decks and other wooden structures. Telltale signs include piles of coarse sawdust and yellowish-brown staining from excrement below entry holes. Although often misunderstood and misjudged as …

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Small Pet Select Chicken Layer Feed Review

Small Pet Select chicken layer food is a non-GMO and corn-free combination of high protein pellets, grains and seeds with Omega-3 vegetable oil enriched by kelp, brewer’s yeast and other sources for complete nutrition for laying hens. This organic chicken …

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What Do Wood Bees Eat?

Carpenter bees get their name from their habit of drilling into wood to create tunnels where they lay eggs, unlike bumble bees which form colonies. Carpenter bees can live alone. To recognize them, look for shiny, hairless abdomens. Traces of …

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Bluebonnet Chicken Feed

When shopping for bluebonnet chicken feed, it is essential to consider cost and value for money as well as ensure it is stored safely to protect from vermin infestation. Egg booster crumbles contain natural, vegetable proteins to promote shell formation …

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What is a Rapid Round Feeder?

These feeders are used to quickly feed honey into bee colonies – especially during fall when large colonies can quickly gobble up all available feed. When employing such feeders it is crucial that hives be located on an angle so …

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What’s in Meat Chicken Feed?

Diet is crucial to their health, flavor and nutrition; chickens being omnivores, some vitamins and essential fatty acids may be better absorbed from animal sources than from plant ones. Poultry flocks can benefit from eating hay too; it provides essential …

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Bee Hotel Girl Scout Homemade Treats

Following extensive discussion and brainstorming sessions, the girls decided on saving honey bees as their project. Their bee hotel project forms part of a new Girl Scout initiative to think like citizen scientists and create real-world sustainable projects. Winter liquid …

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Connecting Communities Through Coastal Chicken Feed

North Carolina’s chicken-raising community is flourishing. Youngsters raise healthy poultry before donating them to local food banks. NC State Extension county centers and agents, Area Specialized Agents such as Margaret Ross from Eastern ASA for Poultry (formerly Margaret Ross at …

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Emergency Feeding For Bees

If your colonies enter winter with insufficient food supplies, you will likely need to provide extra feedings. This could range from as simple as adding sugar bricks or offering pollen patties. Un effective way of checking your beehives’ food supplies …

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