It’s been a rough season for our bees, so I needed to mix up some sugar syrup to feed them this fall. Fall feed is typically 2:1 sugar to water by weight.
Here’s what 16 pounds of sugar looks like; this is how much gets dissolved in one gallon of water.
Carlson Calamities 
What made it a rough season? The heat and dryness? I haven’t seen many bees or butterflies here, but I put it down to the general decline of recent years.
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They swarmed early in the season, didn’t requeen successfully, then lost another queen later in the season, so they just haven’t had a strong population.
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