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I made 1:2 this year for my new bees, very thin, and boy they are drawing comb like crazy... You talked about this in a previous video and it works well...thank you from me and from my bees😊😊😊😎

great video

Ive mixed my own syrup at only slightly warmed water and bottled it and stored for months….it only crystallizes when it is in the drip feeder. I changed to the bucket feeder and solved the problem.

Hey Kamon , hope all is well with the bees, hope to get to see your honey harvest and extracting video , your awesome dude, oh and by the way GO!! TIGERS!!!!!🤣🤣🤣❤❤🤪🤪🤪😂😂

Great video Kamon. Thanks for sharing

I agree with you on the ease of that syrup. Our MannLake is only a two hour drive. It's on the way to the mountain house anyway. I stop in and pick up a few pails of syrup. It's convenient and easy. As for the bees taking the syrup, I've never seen a problem either way. But, you have a lot more bees than I do so you'll observe more. I also think it's important to feed right after extraction due to the stress on the bees being packed into a smaller area. So, that hydrogen peroxide is likely a healthy natural addition to the feeding.

Thanks for sharing valuable content Kamon 🍀 👍🇺🇲

Very interesting about how bees preference nectar over actual ripe honey, yesterday I put out some honey buckets for the bees to clean up, but I saw next to no bees attending, more wasps/yellow jackets, so maybe there is something in the h2o2 thing.

Also have to take into account you can sell totes to offset cost.

Thanks !!

Thanks for sharing!!!

When I mix my sugar water together I use hot water to make sure that the sugar dissolves, also I add honey bee healthy and amino acids. I started to use the frame feeders and the bees are just drinking that stuff down. Keep up the good work on videos will talk to you soon.

Hi Kamon. Would you do a video teaching the difference between a hobbyist inspection and a commercial inspection. I’m at 40 hives on bottom boards and need to streamline inspections for efficiency. Thank you.

Sucrose dextrose fructose potato corn molasses are alternating sugars for bees

I read the following information somewhere. I'm curious about your opinion on this matter. Liquid Invertase Enzyme No matter how much sugar is mixed with water or heat is applied, it is very difficult for bees to fully digest it because its molecular structure is large. For this reason, bees cannot eat fully and healthily. In addition, as the undigested sugar is thrown out, it causes financial harm to the producer. Thanks to the syrups produced with Invertase Enzyme, bees eat healthy and spend the winter much more comfortably. (Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University & Trakya University) The main purpose of invert syrups is to keep the Bee healthy and as complete as possible. On the other hand, preventing the syrup from becoming sugary is important in extending its shelf life, but this should not be the first priority. After the honey harvest, the food stock in the hives is supplemented with sugar syrups. While transferring the sugar syrup to the honeycombs, the bees break down the sucrose in the syrup into glucose and fructose, using their own biological resources and 23% of the fed syrup for this process. This tires the bees and they enter the winter tired. In order to prevent bee fatigue caused by the processing of syrup, it will be useful to support the bees with prepared foods - for example, inverted sugar syrup. The inverted sugar sucrose breaks down into glucose and fructose, so using such products will be less tiring for the bees. Lithuanian Agricultural Institute (Instituto Aleja 1, Akademija, 58344 Kedainiai distr.) Some researchers report that there will be no spoilage problem with invert syrup. Invertase syrup is made by many different methods. Such as organic acids, yeasts, tartars and hydrolysis methods. However, a high quality syrup is obtained by the use of the enzyme invertase to break down sucrose. This enzyme found in honey breaks down sucrose into glucose and fructose. Therefore, it is possible to make invert syrup by using natural honey. Old honey or insufficiently inverted syrup rich in HMF is not suitable for feeding cicadas, as the substance in question is poisonous to bees. Jachimovicz and Sherbiny revealed in 1975 that HMF was responsible for bee deaths. They report that the amount of 15mg/100g HMF in commercially acid-hydrolyzed invert sugar syrup is lethal to bees. When fed with sugar syrup containing 15mg/100g HMF, an average of 58% of the bees died within 20 days. Amounts of 3mg/100g and 6mg/100g HMF are harmless to bees. As a result, many experts argue that the amount of HMF in invert sugar syrups should not exceed 2mg/100g, which is seen in many honeys. Invert sugar syrup should only be used after controlling the amount of HMF in it.

Did you pull that with the fire truck? If you did I'll bet it smoothed the ride out.

👍good job

I agree with the 1:1. I place out the leftover honey buckets from the last extraction right next to the feeding bucket with 1:1 sugar water. Thousand of bees on the sugar water, a hand full on the leftover honey. Makes you think why is that?🤔

Hello dear Kamon. Is there a difference for bees between enzyme-inverted sugar syrup instead of sugar syrup? In other words, which is more nutritious or less harmful for bees? Thanks

Hmmmm... you talk about feeding in the summer and in the winter. It makes me wonder how much honey we purchase at the store is just bee-recycled sugar? I understand bees needing to eat, and I'm all for that, but has commercial honey production just come down to getting bees to create honey out of sugar water rather than nectar?

Great video Kamon. You mentioned that the trash pump won't handle the syrup as you purchase it. How do you transfer that syrup? Is there a different pump that needs to be used? Thanks so much.

Laurel gave you the sigh when you left. 😂

I do 66/33% in warm weather, they probably can use the extra water. Autumn, they get 50/50.

How did you dilute the fluid from the tank to a 1 to 1 consistency before putting it into the beehive?

My questions are a lil off subject but relevant to me since I don't have syrup to dilute. When making sugar water feed whats the optimal ratio? After watching this video and scrolling the comments what I'm getting out of it is thinner is better? I been doing 1:1 (4lb:4lb) with the lower end of the recommended dose for a half gal of honey bee healthy and amino b booster. Question 2 should I be dosing based on a gallon (Sugar and water) or half gallon (water im adding to the sugar)?

If my alarm rings me awake, I'll be at the chat at 02.00 skarp 😉 I got rid of 1/3 of the "djungle" tonight... I might be a bit weary...

Kamon, the sweet talking guy 😁 As for the dilution & bees preferring the more diluted mix, I guess it would be like us drinking defrosted concentrated juice, we can do it but it is not so palatable & we'd get thirsty. Those large totes, is there a deposit on them so they are returned or do you repurpose them?

Question. When can you come feed my bees 🐝

You mentioned using the syrup to make pollen patties, do you have a video on that? Thanks for all your work.

That thumbnail bro 😂

What your ratio of sugar to water for winter bricks. I have the shims ready and just wanted to know your suggestion, I’m in Long Island New York and we still have a little ways to go with the nectar flow before fall. With 8 hive’s it’s sugar syrup 1:1 I feed but the sugar bricks this year will be my first time making them. Thanks again to you and Laurel for the informative videos.

Kamon, I have a question regarding 1:1 vs. 2:1. Why not feed your bees 2:1 anytime you feed them, regardless of the time of year? Is it strictly cost associated?

loved your video on veroa control the old way where you blew up a hive lol is it normal for 1 hive to finish of 1/2 gallon of syrup in a day and a pollen patty i get from tsc in 3 days or are my bees just pigs. they sill bring in pollen and nectar and its a double brood box no super

Do you feed Pollen Pattie’s while you were giving your hive mite treatments?

If we invert regular sugar ourselves does it work like pro sweet?

Sugar must be cheap and widely available in Tennessee

Will this ferment? How many gallons are in that tote? Total weight to haul tote?

Hope it’s not HFCS, ITS IN EVERYTHING, except available in Europe for serious health damage reasons

how much is the Pro Sweet in comparison to sugar mix? I notice that a lot of commercial guys take all the honey they can and replace later with syrup. Is that cost effective? As a hobbyist, I leave upper supper full of honey, rarely feed in the fall.

Does pro sweet go sour when cutting it to 1:1 & 2:1 like sugar syrup does?

How much for a tote ?

Kamon, how much water do you add to pro-sweet to make a 1 to 1 (pound or gallon)?

How much water do you add to pro sweet for 1 to1 and 2 to 1?

What syrup is this I'm don't know.

Where do you purchase this syrup??

First to like Kamon, come on I have to win the apimaye hive lmfao!!!!

Kamon, live chat tonight?

I think the underlying truth that you're not telling your audience is that s*** is expensive. It is a lot cheaper to water it down.