OPEN FEEDING HONEY BEES Sugar,Corn Syrup in drums to honey bee hives,Georgia Beekeeper Beekeeping

http://georgiabees.blogspot.com Beekeeping, Beekeeper open feeding semi load,double deeps 440 beehives corn syrup, sugar blend from 24 - 55 gallon drums, in Georgia. These doubles will be split into 880 beehive singles if not sent to California for almond pollination in January. This bee yard is not mine but I wanted to show another honeybee feeding system on large scale when time is short.

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[gabriel221050]

This is a Dishonest, dishonest, cheating, corrupt, amoral, immoral, lying, deceitful, false, untruthful, fraudulent, corrupt, unfair, insincere, thing to do, Bees should be fed naturally from the trees,

From this method we end up buying "syrup honey" 99% Syrup =1% semi honey.

[johnpluta]

THIS has to be one of the DUMBEST STUPID people on the planet "gabriel221050" to comment like this. I would normally just delete a comment not worth the time to respond to.

FEEDING is done during winter or spring when NO trees are blooming DUMMY, so the Honeybees don't die. NOT during summer with supers on when the bees would ignore it anyway preferring nectar

Most US Honey is tested several times a year to check for any tampering.

[GBMorris]

@johnpluta John, I'm a beekeeper from Canada, where we have much longer and more severe winters than Georgia. As it turns out, you don't have to feed your bees much of anything at all during the winter if you don't take every last scrap of honey they have!

The bees make honey for themselves. We provide them a place to stay and as long as we only take the *excess* honey (which they produce as a result of the care we give them) they can survive just fine on their own honey storage. No corn syrup.

[FancyPantsElitist]

This is a perfect example of when people look at as our food providers as a COMMODITY rather than a resource. i'm disgusted with this film of the exploitation of the bees.

[FancyPantsElitist]

SMH, this is such a stupid way to raise bees. no wonder we have colony collapse. As a beekeeper I'm appalled at how this exploits our friends and abuses them. No one should ever feed bees HCFS, nor treat them, nor basically treat them as SLAVES. They are our providers of food, not the other way around. We should treat them with respect. it's not a puzzle why we have CCD, we abuse them!!!

[CoyoteLight]

Curious - Does this not also attract yellow jackets?

[tappakeggaday1]

I would think I have watched "enough" videos on bees,beekeeping,honey,extracti­ng that when I do get a hive of my own I will be well informed on how to raise them.Some people comment without reading the text in the video or the comment area to inform themselves of what this is about or just are not well informed enough to make a clear statement.

these bees more than likely will be trucked for pollination not making honey for them to sell.

when they talk "honey flow" is harvest time. this is feed.

[ducksmasher11]

how much for a pallete?!

[redbee000]

Great idea John! Bees would rather eat than starve. You are going out of your way to make their off season as comfortable as possible. For the people complaining.... I suggest you stop watching videos if they are too traumatizing for you.

[aandjwynn]

@aandjwynn ...typing too fast. You Cant Add Honey supers when you truck 440 hives!

[aandjwynn]

Yes sir, but trucking bees on a semi, you can add on large supers of honey. Good golly John Pluta, another one!

[Tianyulong]

How many bees are on that location?

Are they only there during the off-seison? (not spring/summer)

There sure are an awfull lot of hyves on that piece of land.

Those barrels look to be a hazard for the bees do .... is putting Grass and stro enough to keep them from drowing? Sad to hear (read) your moviecamera does not have sound. Hope you will make more movies with sound.

I only have two bee hives.

More of a hobby.

[triggersights]

@gabriel221050 maybe to a bee this is like a slurpy. MMMMmmmm Okay a slurpy is a human drink that is crushed ice and fruit syrup of some kind. I'm just BEEing silly of course. Can't we all just BEE happy?