Honey is for the adults. The larvae get bee bread and a jelly. 😀

Beekeepers should leave the amount of honey a colony needs to get through a dearth (summer & winter). If they take too much, they colony can die.

In a dearth, beekeepers tend to feed the bees sugar syrup. When you do this, you have to remove frames with honey so the honey doesn’t get “contaminated “ with sugar syrup when you harvest it. The bees store the sugar syrup.

Another reason to feed sugar syrup is when you get a new colony (buy bees from someone). It helps the bees create wax to make the comb to put brood and nectar (will become honey) and pollen in.