Quote Originally Posted by Silentweapon338 View Post
What exactly do they eat? I thought they ate pollen? Gosh I need to do some bee research.

Very interesting thread for sure.
They gather pollen as a protein to feed baby bees, they bring in nectar as a food for adult bees that they store and cap. We feed them sugar water in ratios of 1:1 early in the spring to get them going before a nectar flow starts. If you harvest all or a majority of the honey in late summer, you will have to feed them sugar water at a ratio of 2:1 so they can store it to live on throughout the winter when they stay in the hive.