Dee wrote:

"This to me is just basics for starting..while some would
then use artificial feeds..."

You have written in the past, Dee, (unless I am mistaken) that you move
hives when they are in areas of nectar dearth to areas where they have
forage. This is not an option that all of us have. In my part of NJ the main
nectar flow is coming to an end and the fall flow becomes more minimal each
year with more development of land.

What would you suggest, when there is so little nectar available, as last
August in NJ, that the queen stops laying (or the workers take back the
eggs--I don't know which) and there was only a small five-day fall flow, and
I have nowhere nor the capability of moving my bees to any available forage?
Should I let them starve? Or should I just stop keeping bees? If they cannot
produce young bees in September and October for lack of forage, and I either
cannot move them or have nowhere to move them to that has forage, then the
older bees will never make it through a NJ winter. What do you suggest?

Janet A. Katz
Chester, NJ

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