tielfan wrote:
How do you feed them - put honey in the hive?
You can feed bees in multiple ways.
Dry granulated suger on top of the hive on some newspaper (They'll only eat it when they need it and carry it out of the hive if they don't - so this method is mostly used in winter)
Foodpacks can be bought our made. That's a mixture of water and sugar and sometimes other stuff (minerals, vitamins, ...) that's more dry than wet.
Or you can feed sugarwater (mixture that's more wet than dry) in a feeder of some sort (prevents the mixture to seep ou to fast into the hive or prevents the bees from drowning in it).
But of course you can put honey in the hive, preferably capped honey still in frames! And to avoid spreading eventual disease, give them their own frames.
@ STephy: I am clicking with bees! I was a bit nervous today. It was my first time working inside the hive...
I'll put up a youtube video of it later (both on youtube and my blog)