FEEDING SUGAR SYRUP TO HONEY-BEE COLONIES TO IMPROVE POLLINATION - A REVIEW

A wide range of management techniques are available for improving hone y bee (Apis mellifera) pollination of crops. Feeding sugar syrup was a mong the earliest of these developed. Three basic approaches to sugar feeding have been used to improve pollination, which can be categorize d by their hypothesized mode of action. These are: attracting bees to a crop by spraying it with sugar syrup; directing bees to a crop by fe eding scented syrup either inside or outside their hive; feeding syrup inside hives to increase the number of pollen gatherers.