How Much Honey To Leave Bees For Winter

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When it comes to deciding how much honey to leave bees for winter there are many questions we need to ask. Some people leave no honey for the bees for winter – but they will feed the bees. 

Many people think bees make honey for us. They don’t. In fact, bees have been making honey long before we even knew how to be humans!

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There are some people that believe that bees need natural honey and others that believe that you can remove all the honey from a hive and feed the bees cheaper sugars at the end of summer so that they can store and use this to make it through the winter. 

Do Bees Need Honey For Winter?

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Many countries have managed over a century of management using this philosophy – it seems to have started very well. Now the wheels are falling off and bees are becoming ill.

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How Much Honey To Leave Bees For Winter?

If you are in Alaska and your bees have to spend a VERY VERY long time locked up in a hive for the super cold winter, then they will need significant stores.

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The trick with bees is to let them produce enough honey for you, and enough honey for them. As I say, I have now taken to always leaving a shallow super full of honey for them AT ANY TIME OF YEAR because the world is a mess and the climate is unpredictable.

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