Hive Alive 100ml

01 · THE GOLDEN RULE

2.5 ml per litre of syrup

Dose at 2.5 ml per litre of syrup, stir well and feed as usual. One detail that ruins the product if overlooked: do not add it if the syrup is above 50 °C — warm or room temperature, always. If you hear about "10 ml per hive", it is the same sum from another angle: four litres of activated syrup per hive in a season is ten millilitres of product.

02 · HOW MUCH AND WHEN

Four litres a hive, in autumn and in spring

The target per hive is 4 litres of activated syrup in autumn — the run-up to wintering — and another four in spring if you are stimulating. How you split it does not matter: four one-litre feeds a week apart, or two two-litre feeds seven to ten days apart. What counts is the season's total, not the number of visits.

03 · HOW FAR IT GOES

40 litres of syrup a bottle

At 2.5 ml a litre, the 100 ml activate around 40 litres of syrup. In hives that is ten if you do a single 4-litre campaign, or five if you do autumn and spring. It is the hobby beekeeper's format: it closes a whole season with clear doses without buying a drum.

04 · IF THEY ARE NOT FEEDING

The spray method, which is another thing

When a hive is weak and will not take feed, the maker allows another route: 1:1 syrup with the supplement at 1:100 — 3 ml in 300 ml of syrup — and a light spray over bees and frames once a week for three weeks. It is not "giving litres", it is a support application. And either way: feed at dusk, without spills and never in the open, which is how robbing starts.

05 · BEFORE YOU BUY

Keep it cool and dark and never below 8 °C. The reference for shelf life is the date printed on the bottle; the maker sets no separate period once opened.