> However, not doing so could also give easy access to robbing, correct?
I would feed using some sort of jar or bucket on top of the hives. I would put them on the hives just before dark or even at night. Open feeding is an all around bad idea, IMHO.
When bees are in a robbing mode, almost everything you do will be wrong. There comes a point where there's nothing you can do that will work, or not make things worse.
PLB
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