Originally Posted by
prakel
I often have a spell during August where anything which isn't sound to begin with is liable to starve, it's the break between the main flow and the full-on flowering of the ragwort. The slow and inactive description sounds right to me -but catch them soon enough and they seem to just 'switch' back on. A good remedy when they're like that is to take an empty comb from the hive and pour syrup into the cells then place it back, next to the cluster.
edit: any feeding method which doesn't deliver the feed inside the brood chamber probably isn't even worth the effort in a case like this -the feed needs to be next to the bees at least initially.
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