I want to thank everyone for your responses public and private on my question about "Plastic foundations" Ellen Anglin wrote: >feed them sugar syrup with some kool aid added >for color and fragrance. (And to tell it apart from honey.) >My bees seem to like cherry. I took Ellen's and Herb/Norma Bee Holly-B Apiary advice, but I did it a little different. I made a mixture of two cups sugar + 3 cups water and 1 envelope of raspberry kool aid (that is what we had in the kitchen). I used a Windex spray bottle took the "Plastic Foundation" frames out and started spraying them one at a time on both sides. As soon as I replaced the first frame back in its original position, the most amazing thing happened; the frame got covered very quickly and they started fanning and making that beautiful vibrating sound, I guess they were announcing the good news to the rest of the hive. That made us very happy as it continued with all my three hives. Again many thanks to all, + Fr. Athanasios