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2. Feeder (beekeeping) - Wikipedia

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   A feeder is a vessel or contraption used by beekeepers to feed pollen or honey (or substitutes) to honey bees from a honey bee colony. Beekeepers feed bees when there is a shortage of those resources in nature, or when beekeepers want to mimic an abundance of those resources to encourage bees to behave in a certain manner.

3. Nectar source - Wikipedia

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   A Western honey bee pollinating a dandelion. A nectar source is a flowering plant that produces nectar as part of its reproductive strategy. These plants create nectar, which attract pollinating insects and sometimes other animals such as birds. [1] Nectar source plants are important for beekeeping, as well as in agriculture and horticulture.

4. Beekeeping - Wikipedia

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   It also meant combs containing honey could be gently removed and the honey extracted without destroying the comb. The emptied honeycombs could then be returned intact to the bees for refilling. Langstroth's book The Hive and Honey-bee (1853), describes his rediscovery of the bee space and the development of his patent movable comb hive. The ...

5. Royal jelly - Wikipedia

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   Developing queen larvae surrounded by royal jelly. Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae and adult queens. [1] It is secreted from the glands in the hypopharynx of nurse bees, and fed to all larvae in the colony, regardless of sex or caste.

6. List of Northern American nectar sources for honey bees

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   A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre

7. An easy hummingbird food recipe for bringing more to your garden

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   Hummingbird food is very easy to make, and actually a lot like simple syrup, the cocktail sweetener. All you really need is four parts water, one part sugar and a hummingbird feeder to put it in ...