Testimonials
- Report from Iraq 2016
- Report from Australia 2016
- Report from New Zealand
- Report from Iran 2012
- New Zealand First Place Winner 2011
- Report from French Polynesia 2011
- Report from Quebec 2011
- Report from Hungary 2009
- Report from Canada
- Report from Romania 2009
- Report from New Zealand
- Report from Hungary 2009
- Report from Albania
- Report from Australia
- Report from Uganda
- Report from Japan
- Report from Russia
- Report from Kenya
- Report from South Africa
- Report from Egypt
- Report from England
- Report from Belgium
- Report from New Zealand
- Report from Uruguay
- Report from Argentina
- Report from Hungary
- Report from New York
- Report from New Zealand
- Report from India
Report From Iraq 2016
From: <mmsa1985@yahoo.com>
Date: May 30 2016
To: <feedbeecenter@gmail.com>
Subject: Feedbee اختبار التقرير.
Report From Australia 2016
From: Sean Freeman <kingislandhoney@gmail.com>
Date: 8 March 2016 at 4:13:00 AM AWST
To: dad and daves honey <dadanddaveshoney@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Feedbee
Report From New Zealand
A picture is worth a thousand words.
One of my very happy customers sent me this photo of a brood frame after feeding Feedbee patties this spring.
Jeff has been a regular customer for over 4 years. He states that Feedbee makes a huge difference to his hives pre- pollination build up for Kiwifruit Pollination.
Neil
Report From Iran 2012
New Zealand First Place Winner 2011
First-place winner of Entomological Society of Canada (ESC) Photo Contest: Winner John McLean.
McLeanThree Bees.jpg. Three ladies dining at Cafe Feedbee in a bee hive feeder at Pouawa on the east coast of New Zealand just north of Gisborne. This study is continuing to find the best way to provide honey bees with protein supplementation during periods of pollen dearth in the autumn (fall) and in so doing hoping they will survive winter and be vigorous in the spring.
This picture will be published in ESC.
Report From French Polynesia June 2011
Je suis apiculteur en Polynésien Française et j’utilise le Feedbee pour la préparation du greffage des Reines afin d’augmenter la sécrétion de la gelée royale pour les larves à prélever
2 semaines avant le greffage, je mets la Reine à pondre avec une grille à Reine verticale pour qu’elle reste que sur le cadre de prélèvement et je nourris avec le Feedbee en forme liquide.
Le prélèvement est devenu un jeu d’enfant, les larves baignent dans beaucoup de gelée royale et la dépose dans les cupules s’en trouve facilité.
C’est aussi un très bon produit pour augmenter la ponte de la Reine dans les ruchettes avec les nouvelles Reines qui viennent d’être fécondées, elle pond 2 fois pus vite et les abeilles qui ont été élevé au Feedbee sont vraiment en super forme.
En saison fraîche, ici de Juin à Fin septembre, lorsqu’il n’y a plus de fleur et pour garder les ruches toujours en forme pour la nouvelle saison j’utilise aussi le Feedbee
Vraiment ce produit permet aux abeilles de ne plus stresser lorsque le temps change et qu’il n’y a plus rien à prendre dans la nature.
C’est vraiment un super produit
FREBAULT KAHA,
BP 41, 98731 FARE HUAHINE,
FRENCH POLYNESIA
Tel: +689 720202
Email: vaaislv@mail.pf
Report from Quebec March 2011
As a commercial queen breeder up north Québec, Canada using Feedbee since many years now, we found nothing else better to boost and keep our cell builders colonies exploding like it should!!Best of the Best
Anicet Desrochers
Api-Culture, Hautes Laurentides Inc.
miels@api-culture.com
www.api-culture.com
Report from Hungary
My Experiences with the Powder Form of Feeding Feedbee
In my own apiary I used the powder form of feeding inside the hive from the end of
the acacia flowering. I mixed Feedbee in 1:1 portion to icing sugar and I poured
the mixture to the cells on the one side of the pre-built half “nagyboconádi”
(special Hungarian type) frames. In this way approximately 20-22 dkg Feedbee-icing
sugar mixture could be placed in one frame. I was checking the placed frames
continuously; I was curious how the bees accept them. To my surprise they treated
it like pollen. They compacted and sealed the Feedbee-icing sugar mixture in the
cells, and then they started to consume it. The attached pictures demonstrate this
process well. The colonies consumed completely the Feedbee-icing sugar mixture in
10-14 days given to them in this way.
This technology of feeding proved itself very successful. Feedbee brought the
expected results. In the drought and heat of the summer the colonies did not
become depopulated like in the previous years. If the warming period is longer,
there is no suitable pollen field nearby or in areas where the bee population
density is high, feeding is definitely needed.
The pictures and the video that show outside feeding were made in the apiary of my beekeeper friend József Vasmatics. He is the master of spring colony development. I consider that the pictures do not need much explanation. It can be seen that many bees visited the powder feeder outside. The expected result arrived here as well. Despite the unfavourable weather of March, the bees developed beautifully
On the basis of my experiences I advise Feedbee to all beekeepers.
Jenő Végh, beekeeper, Sásd, Hungary.
Report from Canada
This is how bees eat Feedbee paties in Canada. These pictures were taken in the early spring 2009 from hives in Saskatchwan Province in Canada sent by
Corey Bacon
B’S BEE RANCH INC. BOX 48
KINISTINO, SASKATCHEWAN , S0J 1H0 CANADA
Mobile: 306.864.7684
Tel: 306.864.3774
Email: beeranch@sasktel.net
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Report from Romania
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Vernalis Bt - Piffkó László <feedbee@feedbee.hu>
To: Abdi Saffari <amsaffari@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 6:48:43 PM
Subject: Romanian report
Dear Abdi, I’ve got the following report from Romania on the 16 of May. Best regards, Laci My experiences with Feedbee We gave the first patty to the bees on the 20 of February, after the cleaning flight. It was not on purpose that I chose this period, but only then had I got time between two exhibitions to prepare it and give it to the bees. We made the patty with the mixture of 50 kg icing sugar + 20 kg Feedbee + 3 kg honey + herbal teas + water. We put 0,5 – 0,7 kg per colonies into nylon bags and placed them on the top of the frames. We had enough honey - stock for 130 colonies, so they would have survived even without the patties until April. Until now, I never gave patties to my bees. At springtime I usually place one or two covered honey frames after the dividing board at the first hive opening , which has a very good stimulating effect. Best regards, László Polgár, |
Report from Hungary, 2009
----- Original Message -----
From: Vernalis Bt - Piffkó László <feedbee@feedbee.hu>
To: Abdi Saffari <amsaffari@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:18:16 PM
Subject: Report on the testing Feedbee in Hungary
Dear Abdi,
I would like to report you shortly on the experiments in Hungary . I cannot give you any data already, because all of the experiments are going on now, I can only write you about the experiences and observations so far.
Gödöllő Research Station:
Dr. Enikő Szalainé Mátrai and Dr. László Békési have been testing Feedbee since March 2009. Similar to the previous year the experiments took place in the apiary of the research institute and in two outer premises. Although the experiment focused on effects of Feedbee on Nosema this year, but they watched for the other important bee diseases as well; and off course they measured the colony population again. I’ve been personally at Gödöllő in May 5th to inquire about the experimental design their results. Dr. Enikő told me that the colonies fed with Feedbee showed significant differences in development this year too in comparison with the control colonies. She couldn’t give her opinion with regards to Nosema yet, because they’ve just collect samples and they are under lab test.
Dr. Enikő has also reported that they were invited to several places in spring time to hold lectures on Feedbee. During these lectures and from their enquiries they have collected a lot of feedbacks from beekeepers who used Feedbee. She said “They were very satisfied, they believe in Feedbee by many experiences they had with Feedbee.”
Attached I’m sending you some pictures I just took at Gödöllő Research Station.
There are other important testing is being done by vets. I asked three vets for testing, but it seems that one of them couldn’t spend sufficient time and attention to the research. Thus there are results of only two tests will be available for evaluation. These experiments primarily test the development of colonies and their honey production. The vets who has done the experiments and their short comments are as follows:
Dr. Dénes Hegedűs
He is satisfied with the results so far. The colonies fed with Feedbee developed better. He fed bees with powder milk as well and he realised that Feedbee is much better. He made patties with 25% of Feedbee and experienced that these patties were more attractive to bees than the sugar patties.
Dr Bálint Kelemen
Prepared patties with 40% of Feedbee and the development of colonies fed with these patties were 20-25% more than the control colonies.
I’ll get detailed data and written analysis from both vets by the end of June. The experiment will go on for the whole year 2009. They’ll also test the effectiveness of Feedbee in the summer period and at the colonies preparation for winter as well.
I’ll send you all the reports in English.
Best regards,
Laci
Vernalis Bt.
Cím: H 7694 Hosszúhetény,
Püspökszentlászló u. 11.
Telefon: +36 72/491-020
Mobil: +36 30/7437-048
E-mail: feedbee@feedbee.hu
Honlap: www.feedbee.hu
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Report From New Zealand 2009
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: "david@firstpeak.co.nz" <david@firstpeak.co.nz>
To: Abdi Saffari <amsaffari@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 8:55:10 PM
Subject: Feedbee/New Zealand
Hi Abdi,
You may remember we were in touch when you were starting to send Feedbee to NZ.
We are very happy with Feedbee and it has made a big difference to us.
Thank you for producing such a great product.
Kind regards,
David Morrall,
New Zealand
Report from Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Thomson <peterthomson2@bigpond.com>
To: Des Cannon <desjenan842@yless4u.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:37 PM
Subject: Feedbee
Hello Des,
Thank you for sending Feedbee. It was quite interesting to see what difference it has made to the selected hives I use it on. I decided to use the patty method as I feel I will be feeding the feral bees too with the dry feeding. When I put the feedbee into the selected hives there was an immediate increase in the frames of brood. I feel it was a good time to trial this food as there was almost no pollen of any description coming into the hives. My bees are presently on the Yapunyah (Ecalyptus) trees. To see there was an increase in the brood shows a definite advantage of using this product. I have spoken to a few beekeepers and I have heard mixed messages. Some saying it was expensive but as I see it if there is the bee population then there will be honey. I feel confident that it will soon show returns during the Spring.
Kind regards
Peter Thomson
Australia
Report from Albania
----- Original Message -----
From: "info@xhe-re.com" <info@xhe-re.com>
To: amsaffari@yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:25:06 AM
Subject: Feedbee tested in Albania
Hello Dr. Abdi Saffari
The reason for my delayed report is to gather the feedbacks from beekeepers who used Feedbee during last autumn/fall. Here is the report: all interviewed beekeepers have positive feedback about Feedbee. Their bees had good over-wintering and are more active in the spring.
This is how we worked on bees during autumn/fall 2008.
The 2008 summer was very dry with absence of pollen and nectar. For that way in the 2008 year in mid September the colonies had 3 to 4 frames of bees & ˝ to 1 frame of brood. In this condition we feed 60 colonies with Feedbee (patty form), 5 colonies feed natural way (no Feedbee) so we could see the difference. The feeding was continued for 6 weeks, three time's patty form and three times liquid form. The average consumption of Feedbee was 300-500 grams per week per colony depending upon the feeding method & colonies’ strength. By November 1st the colonies’ already had 4-5 frames of brood and 6-7 frames of bees & also enough quantity of honey for winter.
The other colonies without Feedbee (naturally fed) did not have honey for wintering & had only 2-2 ˝ frame of brood and 4-5 frames of bees. In the spring 2009 observation confirmed that the bees wintered well & only two colonies lost. We began to feed the bee in March 1st until today the bees have fed 3 times in liquid forms & two times in petty form. In April 12th the strong bees had 12-13 frames of brood & 13-14 frames of bees. The actual pictures are attached. We will further report in future.
Best regards,
FATMIR MEHMETAJ
TIRANA/ALBANIA
XHE & RE CO.
"Myslym Shyri" Str. P9Shk6Ap48
Tirana, ALBANIA
Tel: +355692033646
Fax: +355 42379850
Email: info@xhe-re.com
Web: www.xhe-re.com
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Report from Uganda
From: Ndyabarema Robert <rndyaba@gmail.com>
To: Abdi Saffari <amsaffari@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 3:24:48 AM
Subject: Testing Feedbee
Dear Sir
Greetings
I am sorry for taking long without giving you feedback. I have tested
the Feedbee you sent to me and here below are the observation I have
made
12kgs of feed received from were in powder form
The experimental apiary had 6 colonized hives
The Colonies in the hives were weak due to beetle infestation
There were few combs even after 3-6 months of colonization and no
honey had never been harvested
o The starting date for feeding was 28th January 2008
o Only 6 kgs were put on different feeding troughs and placed in the apiary
o The bees were feeding on the powder only in the afternoon
on sunny days.
o The feed were put at noon an removed at 6 pm to ensure the feeds
remain in powder form
o On wet days the feed were removed and stored
o All the 6 kgs were consumed by 1st March 2008
o The Apiary was visited on 11th March 2009 and the follwing was observed
1. All the 4 hives were active
2. The had expanded on combs
3. Honey was being deposited in combs (hope by end March 2009 all
combs will be sealed and then harvested) .
4. The hives have less beetle infestation
I will keep on monitoring between now and the harvest time and let you
of the results.
With these preliminary results, iam convinced that this can work and help in
Increasing hive performance
The remaining six Kgs will be placed in side the hives in another site
and then compare the results.
Robert Ndyabarema
P.O Box 10491, Kampala
Tel: +256 712 417452 0r
Tel: +256 703061178
rndyaba@gmail.com
Report from Japan
From: Hiroshi
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Some interesting information on Feedbee
Date: Friday, August 8, 2008 10:52:04 AM
Dear Abdi.
Today August 9th, I have used or sold more than half of Feedbee in 6 months.
The Fujii's and Mr.yoshioka too.
I believe that beekeepers here are learning day by day how it is important to feed bees with right material on right way. So we are starting to talk about the quantity we need for the next season.
Mr.Yoshioka reported that Feedbee had an excellent effect on pollinator hives in greenhouse.
He put 1kg of Feedbee patty inside the hives before dispatching them to strawberry farms, and 5 month later pick them up there again.
After checking them, he noticed that colonies previously fed were still much more populated compared with non- fed colonies. Besides, they were easily builded up again by just feeding some sugar syrup.
I have also learned Feed bee is very beneficial not only to increase of proliferation but also to keep longevity of adult workers. I will report you on this soon.
Thanks
Hiroshi
From: Kimitaka Fujii
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Feedbee
Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:03:42 AM
Dear Mr. Saffari,
I told Mr.Mitsuhara of Arysta Life&Science about Feedbee.
He said that his company is interested in Feedbee, they will buy it in June to feed their bumblebee. He will contact me in June. I know some other bumblebee keeping companies in Japan. The other day you send me some pictures of blue color powder feeder. I am interested in that one. A beekeeper who bought Feedbee form Mr.Tawara said that honeybee takes Feedbee powder well. It is very easy to feed. If you know about powder feeder well, please give me an easy sketch of structure. I think it is appropriate design for power.
Best Regards,
Kimitaka Fujii
Report from Russia
From: Alexander S. Faramazyan
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Bee disease in Greenhouses
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 4:20:42 AM
Hi Abdi,
The name of the disease is Ascosphaerosis. This disease sets up a lot of trouble in greenhouses. They feed the bees in greenhouses with pollen. Pollen is not clean and causes Ascosphaerosis. This is everyday occurrence.
When we tried Feedbee in one of the greenhouses there was no Ascosphaerosis occurred. That was the director of that greenhouse talking about at the conference.
Best regards,
Alexander S. Faramazyan
Report from Kenya
From: Wyclife Ngonga
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Re: Feed bee report
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008 5:00:38 AM
Dear Dr. Abdi safari.
Am sorry yesterday was in a meeting but i got your message please Kindly find bellow the report on Feedbee from Kenya.
After National Bee keepers Association had given the Feedbee to their bees to experiment in the month of January there has been increase in production compared to the other years around the same time, the other important issue is that around this time the bees have always been sick, but this time round they have not experience any of this, is seems that the immune system of the bees was boosted and has been more resistant to that kind of sickness.
The Feedbee was given to two families each family was given 1 kg mixed in powder form.
The associations opinion about the Feedbee is very positive and the have written to the government to allow the import of Feedbee to the country because this will improve the Production of honey to assist in the arid and semi arid areas of this country and reduce poverty in the rural communities which depend on bees for their livelihood.
I am pleased to inform you that this association is the arm of government that is in charge of the bee keeping in Kenya.
Yours faithfully,
Wyclife Ngonga
Report from Hungary
From: Kiss Sándor
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Report from Slovakia
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:41:12 PM
Dear Sir,
I can only write to you shortly, because nowadays we spend a lot of time rotating the rape honey (as the production is very high). Futhermore, the acacia started blooming as well lately.
At the end of February I gave Feedbee to my bees in the form of a flat sugar pie and mixed it with castor sugar. Every family received 1 kg . Despite the fact that I did not make comparisons (there were no bee families to check the results), my opinion about Feedbee is very positive. My bees are strong and develop faster compared to previous years. Regarding the rape they were strong, maybe even too strong.
As I am a bee mother educator, I have to send in bee models for the checkups of Noséma and throttle mites. The results were better compared to previous years but the most important was the fact that there was not one family showing a kind of strong infection. This first year it seems that our invested money returns with a certain rate of interest. By all means I will use Feedbee for feeding my bees in the Autumn as well.
Yours sincerely,
Kiss Sándor, Szlovákia
From: Levente Kámán
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Feedbee Reports from Hungary
Date: Monday, May 5, 2008 9:35:28 AM
Hi Abdi,
I'd like to inform you about three positive feedbacks from Hungarian beekeepers.
A beekeeper from Eastern Hungary, who is the chair of the County Beekeepers ’ Association, told me that he had added Feedbee to sugar syrup, and has been feeding his bees in this way since February. He added 300 g Feedbee to 75 % of sugar syrup. He claims he has such an extended brood area as he has never had before at the beginning of April. In most of the hives he already has brood area in 7 frames, however, beekeepers in the neighborhood have 2-3 frames less than this. The latter beekeepers keep visiting him to see with their own eyes this “miracle”. He promised to shot this and to send it to me, so that I can put it on the Internet.
I was talking to another beekeeper two weeks ago, who was not able to inform me about the development of the families, but only about the consumption. He added 10 kg Feedbee to 15 kg powder sugar, after that he stirred it with 70% sugar syrup to patty. He gave patties of 1kg to the families, which were consumed in 10 days even by weaker families. The stronger families have been already feed be the 4th portion.
He also told me that his colleague fed the bees outside the hives in form of powder, and the bees totally cover the Feedbee , daily 3 kg is consumed from the quantity.
This is a report from Alsópáhok
I put Feedbee in portions of 0,5kg to 30 beefamilies in form of soft patty as an experiment on 02.17.2008. The bees were reluctant to start taking it. The 30 families have taken them by about the end of March. However, these families while carrying Feedbee have become very strong, so as I had to lay honey drawer for the families. The brood area is 7-8 frames in “Charging” hives and 9-10 frames in “Nagyboconád” hives. These bee families were about to swarm around the 10th of April. In case of these families we had to put artificial honeycomb before the blooming of the rape in order to weaken the families to avoid their swarming.
When the pictures were taken these families were carrying the second honey drawer on the rape.
Greetings,
Levente Kámán from Alsópáhok
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Report from South Africa
From: Cornie Le Roux
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Feedbee
Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 5:46:46 AM
Dear Mr. Saffari.
Hope all is well with you! Around here things are great! We are constantly feeding our bees with Feedbee and the results are speaking for themselves!
We split about 70 hives 3 weeks ago and so far we have lost only 2 swarms. This is really good, considering that there are no real natural food sources available at this time of the year in our area!
Regards,
Cornie Le Roux
From: Louma Le Roux
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Feedbee
Date: Friday, May 16, 2008 5:46:46 AM
Dear Mr. Saffari
The introduction of Feedbee in the Western Cape was received with great interest! I made up samples, which I handed out at a meeting of a few beekeepers in our area. Most of the people at the meeting were very interested and asked a bunch of questions! I have already sold a few bags of Feedbee. I believe I will sell a whole lot more in the next few weeks, as the local guys are getting used to the idea of feeding their bees with a quality feed!
In a couple of months we have a national gathering of beekeepers in South Africa and I'm looking forward to introducing Feedbee on a national level! I am busy with advertising in our Bee Journal, but around here things take a little more time!
I would like to know where I can get hold of the plastic dry feeders, as we have nothing of the sort in South Africa. So far we have made our own feeders, but I would like to have the plastic ones for the National beekeeping conference. I would appreciate it if you could let me know where to find the dry feeders and what the costs would be to purchase them and ship them to SA.
Well, our bees are absolutely loving the Feedbee, espessially in this dry time of year!
Thank You!
Kind Regards
louma le roux
Report from Egypt
From: Ahmad Gomaa
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: RE: Feedbee test result
Date: Sunday, May 4, 2008 12:18:30 AM
sir
sorry for being late
the report was not finished becouse the season was not finished yet and the bees still in the field but here is the primary report.
the feedbee is very good in feeding increase the bee activity by 40% it should help more in the new wax sheet extraction it need to be less amount used for each time "more concentrated i don't know the terms" it should help the bee for more activity for this amount each time.
Ahmad Gomaa
Report from England
From: Mark Evamy
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: RE: Feedbee
Date: Monday, March 31, 2008 4:14:55 PM
Hi Abdi
Thanks for all the information, I am very interested in getting to know this exciting product. I will be feeding soft patties to bees this week. I will photograph the job and send you them in a few weeks to add to your data.
We must talk about what is needed to promote this product for UK beekeeping. I have had such a positive experience, dealing with Feedbee, that I am very keen to work with you.
Talk to you soon
Mark Evamy
Report from Belgium
From: Pierre Vanrijkel
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Feedbee
Date: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:07 PM
Hello Abdi,
How are you? and how are the bees doing?
Abdi, I think that I am a winner because all the hives fed with "Feedbee" before wintertime are well doing, the others are rather weak and I just lost two hives (from them whom were not fed).
This could be the sign that "Feedbee" is a good product and I will say it to other friends. In order to my friend Dr Mifsud in Malta you can read what he send me a few days ago.
Regards,
Pierre Vanrijkel
Report from New Zealand
From: R N Farrer
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Feedbee
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:35:59 PM
A quote from one Beekeeper
"I would just like to let you know that the Feedbee is doing wonders for our bees. They are bigger and stronger than ever before. Quite noticeable with the size of pollen balls they can bring in!
A question-How much pollen do adult bees eat??"
I have been asking a number of Beekeepers on how they found Feedbee so that I can do a report for you on NZ findings.
Neil
Report from Uruguay
From: Timoteo Texeira
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Feedbee in Uruguay
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 4:51:10 AM
Dear Abdi Saffari,
Sorry, but Yesterday was impossible send the e-mail, today I send the first impression abaut the FeedBee results, Ms. Raquel Caraballo hat using the Feedbee in 7 litle beehives, and she hav another 7 beehives without feedbee to compare the result.
From the begining the bees was inmediately on the product with a strong acepptance, three the days later the frames from this 7 beehives are biger, with wax, and the honey comb was considerably more biger, and with more cell that in the another 7 beehives without the product.
\ In the next e-mail you reseive more expecific details, and photos about of this first experience with the feedbee in Uruguay land.
We are very happy with the result and we start the licence and importation details for the inminent import of many quantities to feedbee.
Thank you very much, and we stay in contact.
Best Regard
Timoteo Texeira
Report from Argentina
From: Martin Braunstein
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Feed-Bee
Date: Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:14:14 AM
Dear Abdi,
My experience with FEED BEE was successful in terms of acceptance and palatability. The product was mixed with sugar syrup and made into 500 gram patties. It was provided to both starter and cell-builder hives of our grafting yard and the bees ate the patties in less than 10 days after introduction into the broodnest. This took place during the first week of December under a good honey and pollen flow. Unlike other artificial bee diets the product was indeed attractive and it was consumed during a period of good flight.
Best regards,
Martin Braunstein
Report from New York
From: Bob Evans
To: Abdi Saffari
Subject: Re: Parcel Recieved!
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:23:44 -0400
Hi!
just a short note to say thank you.
i'm getting ready to take off this years crop and it looks like there will plenty.
by feeding FEED BEE during the durth my 10 hives of russians have kept up brood production and made a good crop.
last year before feeding my crop was terrible.
the swarms that were caught all look good going in to winter they too were given Feed Bee to get them started.
when we last spoke you were working on something to help with the mite problems i'm looking forward to your progress.
thanks again and if i can ever help you please give me a call.
bob evans cwcp
ps. will send pictures when i figure out how?
Report from New Zealand
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006
Testing has proved that Feedbee assists hive growth in my hives and I am waiting for the report from the Queen producer. To hurry things along I have also supplied another Queen producer 5kg to experiment with Nuc hives started withy new queens - I feel that he will duplicate the results that I have seen.
In my case from a test of 8 Nuc hives of four frames, shifted to a new apiary, and fed Feedbee , except for one control. The other 7 showed outstanding growth to the extent that they are now two full depth supers high and ready to be split again, averaging 12 frames of brood and four frames of pollen and food stores (16 out of 18 frames). The control is still in one box and only fills 7 of nine frames. All 8 Nucs were new queens from Autumn and wintered over from May to August with sugar syrup feeding. In my area, mid august the queens start laying in earnest and the hive development commences.
Her are the photos of my using feebee. I showed the basic materials, then mixing the brew, off to the Apiary and photos of the site and hives. Last one is another Apiary where I split up 20 hives and made. I tried to show low tech approach to using feebee.
R N Farrer
Vice President National Beekeepers Assoc of NZ INC
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006
One queen breeder has responded finally.
He treated some new Nucs (32) that were failing with new queens - he had been ready to kill the queens and start again. With a Feedbee patty and syrup they recovered and within 4 weeks had caught up to the other Nucs - possibly even passing some in brood and number of bees. He is sold on the product now.
R N Farrer
Vice President National Beekeepers Assoc of New Zealand INC
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Report from India
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006
Dear Abdi,
I am forwarding you few pics and their file names can explain everything. These pics have been taken today morning itself. FEEDBEE patties and liquid form is fine, the liquid form intake is on the First Number. We will be trying another phase of patty feeding in couple of days.
Regards,
Shekhar Verma
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007
Good news - The queen breeder rang me today.
He was very happy with the trial - the queen programme was enhanced by using Feedbee. And the bees cleaned it all up even though there was plenty on pollen around his mating yard and breeding yard.
I will send you more information as soon as I have the details.
Regards
R N Farrer
Vice President National Beekeepers Assoc of NZ INC
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