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Quote: Don't over think your bee problem. Honey bees will work or gather sawdust and cow poop in the spring to use for raising young bees at least until a suitable pollen is available.

Cattle food, horse food, dog food, cat food, swine food, bird food, all that is needed is that it be organic in the original sense, powdered, and dry like pollen is. Of course there also needs to be a pollen dearth in the land.

Since the Winter Solstice the days have been growing longer. That tells both our chickens and the honey bee that the time is approaching to rear young. Therefor the bees are in greater need of protein to raise baby bees. What you see with honey bees working chicken food is normal and natural...

Welcome to the BYC flock cartvogel. Allow me to reenter the discussion. There are flowers and there are flowers. Pumpkins and other members of the cucumber family as well as peppers, beans, tomatoes, many tree species, etc are not good bee forage. Most of these plants evolved in the absence...

Pumpkins and most of the new world crops are almost useless to honey bees. Besides it takes 1,000s of acres of different plants to satisfy a bee hives need for pollen. But any bee hive with only pumpkins as its sole source of protein will soon be a dead bee hive. What kind of trees are...

It is almost impossible to SEE anything that bees do because everything they do inside the hive they do in total darkness and when the hive is opened and light comes in the bees stop doing what ever it was they were doing before the hive was opened and begin doing something else. That said...

You know that and I know that but in other threads this year on this same subject, people were advising that we capture the bees we find working our chicken feed and confine them in an empty hive for their honey production potential.

At this time of year bees begin raising large amounts of worker bees to have a large workforce on hand when the spring nectar flow begins. Honey bees or any other insect or animal needs protein to raise young. The honey bees’ protein source is powered (dry) pollen. At this time of year...