Spilled Sugar water

[josbees]

When I was adding sugar water this morning, I accidentally spilled some over the edge of my hive top feeder and it ran down the inside of the hive and out by the reducer.  Could this cause problems?

[suprstakr]

By tomorow bees will clean it up . :-D

[Two Bees]

Suprstakr's right!  I spilled some sugar syrup in my hives when I was intially installing the packages because the holes in the lid of the gallon jar were larger than they should have been.  It took a bit of spilling before the suction stopped the leaking.  But I noticed a nice puddle on the bottom board.  By the next day when I opened the hive to remove the wire cage, the bees had cleaned the entire mess up and you could not even tell a spill had happened!

(My instructions were to put the whole package cage into the hive instead of shaking the bees out)

[BMAC]

You know what they say.  Dont cry over spilled syrup....

No prob.  Sometimes you need to bee careful as the syrup will run out the entrance and can start a robbing frenzy....

[Michael Bush]

Tomorrow?  Heck they'll have in cleaned up in about five minutes...