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WATER AND POLLEN FOR BEES
By H. F. Wilson, University of Wisconsin.
There is a discussion in the March issue of the American Bee Journal on water for bees by Mr. Dadant and Professor F. B. Paddock. In this connection, it will undoubtedly be of interest to beekeepers to know that the Wisconsin Experiment Station has carried on a series of experiments to determine the amount of water used by bees in the spring and we have found that as much as six gallons of water may be taken down by a single colony in addition to that gathered from the field between the first of April and the first of July. In these experiments we have noticed that when bees are not rearing brood the amount of water taken down is comparatively small, but immediately when brood rearing begins, the amount taken increases greatly. We are now preparing material for a bulletin in which we are recommending to our Wisconsin beekeepers that they have a water feeder on each colony of bees during the spring period. There is no question but what bees will take water when given to them in winter, but there is some doubt in my mind as to the actual need of water other than that in the hive, either free or in honey.
ABJ, July 1923
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