I will post different things I have learned in beekeeping since October of 2014, when I joined a local bee club. For the first few months when I first got the bees I mixed up sugar water and put it in a feeder that dripped a small amount of sugar water inside the hive. I had two hives and they would drink a quart of sugar water a day. Giving them the sugar water helped them get established as a colony until the flowers started blooming to give them pollen and nectar.