You write that the bees will require much feeding this spring
because of the warm weather conditions.
Hey, I've been Boardman feeding my bees (100/sugar-50--it doesn't
freeze as rapidly as 50/50) since Nov to prolong and/or stimulate
broodrearing so that come the honeyflow here in Central Maryland,
the bee population will be tops, leading to a larger honey harvest.
Cheers.
 
**John Iannuzzi, Ph.D.
**38 years in apiculture
**12 hives of Italian honeybees
**At Historic Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042, U.S.A. (10 miles west of
   Baltimore, Maryland) [9772 Old Annapolis Rd - 410 730 5279]
**"Forsooth there is some good in things evil
   For bees extract sweetness from the weed" -- Bard of Avon
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