In this article, we look at making sugar water for bees. There are times when bees need a bit of help from us – an energy boost – or even when we have to pay them back for taking their honey.
Sugar water is an excellent growth medium for certain yeast. Many of these sugar-loving yeasts are actually found in beehives, and bees are covered in them.
I used to put sugar outside in big cubit drums and place a grid that floated inside to stop the bees from drowning. We would find that the bees would drink and empty a tote like this in a day or so.
I find the new types of white sugar (don’t use brown it will kill your bees) have special processes they use to make the sugar dissolve very fast. Ten to twenty years ago, dissolving sugar was a pain.