The sugared water which we had poured in small containers before is now in special nutrition containers. That means we don't have to replace or change it so often. However you mustn't put too much because it might ferment if it is exposed too much time to the heat. The nutrition containers don't only have advantages, many bees (and wasps) paid with their lives.
The Apifonda is eaten by the girls as well, but doesn't seem to be really necessary, maybe more advisable if you are off for a longer time and can not fill up the sugar water. We already have talked to different people with more knowledge than us and nobody of them uses Apifonda. They also don't have any interest in selling it to us. Well, when you start something you also have to learn to your cost and economic interest is everywhere.
One basic question we have been putting ourselves is the one if you really need to feed the bees in this extensive manner. Wild bees in former times didn't have any sugar dough and made honey nonetheless. Of course outcome of honey will be less but surely of higher quality. A cow which eats in the pasture and moves outside also provides better meat than the one closed inside and fed with feed pellets.
Here are some pictures of the open hive, everybody working.
Das Flugloch haben wir inzwischen vergrößert. Gestern abend haben wir gesehen, dass nicht mehr nur eine sondern viele Wächterbienen über das Wohl des Stockes wachen und vor Eindringlingen schützen:
The entrance hole has been extended. Yesterday we saw that not just one but many guardian bees are watching over the hive and protecting it from intruders.
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