Opening and Feeding the Hive - Step 9
Fill the feeder with syrup

Fill the empty hive-top feeder with one gallon of sugar syrup.  If bees are already crawling up into the grated feeding area at the front, pour slowly so you ensure that the bees are not covered with syrup and drowned.  Carefully monitor the syrup level to make sure it doesn't flow over the lip in the grated feeding area.  A feeder mounted on a properly-positioned hive, with only a slight downhill pitch, should hold a gallon of syrup.  But be careful each time you fill the feeder.  If much syrup runs over the feeder lip, it will run down into the hive, onto the bottom board and out the entrance, encouraging honeybee robbing and ant invasions.     

Feeding and Watering
Opening and Feeding the Hive
Preparing to Visit the Apiary

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