Natural Feeding Stimulant for Honeybees with Essential Oils

Ron’s Feeding Stimulant for Bees – $25

Ron’s Feeding Stimulant for Bees is a natural honeybee feeding stimulant concentrate made up of lemongrass oil, lavender oil and spearmint essential oils. This formula encourages bees to expand their colonies and draw out new comb, as well as helps keep hives cleaner and improves overall colony health. It can be added to your feeding mix to encourage bees to feed and amplify their routines.

Place an Order

Ron’s Feeding Stimulant for Bees

Natural Honeybee Feeding Stimulant with Essential Oils

Ron’s Feeding Stimulant is a natural honeybee feeding stimulant concentrate made up of lemongrass oil, lavender oil and spearmint essential oils. According to latest research, essential oils are effective for improving the health of honey bees. This formula encourages bees to expand their colonies and draw out new comb, as well as helps keep hives cleaner and improves overall colony health. Add this feeding mix to your sugar water to encourage bees to feed and amplify their routines.

A Solution to Calm Honeybees and Help the Colony Accept a New Queen

Ron’s Feeding Stimulant also contains aromatic essential oils that calm honeybees. Keeping a lit smoker to calm the bees is highly recommended by beekeepers. Sometimes smokers go out or smokers are not available when needed. Beekeepers need a backup option available while working the beehive. This healthy solution temporarily masks the normal pheromones produced by honeybees. Using Ron’s Feeding Stimulant solution as a spray also helps the colony accept a new queen.

Product’s Details

The product is sold in a 24 Fluid Ounces bottle for $25. 24 Fluid Ounces mixes with 24 gallons of sugar water. It comes with the syringe to transfer the right amount of fluid to the hive feeder.

Instruction for application: Shake well before using. Using the included syringe, add one fluid ounce of this concentrate to one gallon of sugar-water mix. Then mix well and add to feeders. Keep tightly sealed between use.

Use cases: Ron’s Feeding Stimulant can be used as a spray to calm bees, as well as when honeybees are producing brood and available pollen sources are limited. It can be used to help build up weak, over-winterized colonies, packages, nucs and swarms. 

Ingredients: Ron’s Feeding Stimulant concentrate contains Purified Water, Pure Cane Sugar, Sunflower Lecithin, Lemongrass oil, Spearmint oil, Lavendar oil.

Testimonials

“My husband and I started working with Bruce Ford in 2020 in order to secure agricultural status on our small acreage tract. Since that time, Bruce has continued to be a wealth of information with regards to setting up and maintaining bee yards, best food sources to grow for bees to forage, how to identify and resolve issues to ensure the health of the hive, what to do in severe weather conditions to prepare and/or protect your hive, etc. He also continues to amaze us with his intelligence, experience, helpfulness, ingenuity, integrity, and educational opportunities for learning more. He is a true blessing to our homestead and in our lives!”

Tim and Barbara RobertsonWaelder, TX

“Working with Bruce has been a terrific experience. He’s committed to the quality of his work, and basics are well covered: the bee boxes look great, the bees and starter frames are robust, and as part of installation Bruce rechecks boxes after a few days to ensure that queens are present and all is well. He works with clients and the tax appraisal office to ensure Ag exemption requirements are met. And beyond this, if you (like me) are curious and interested to learn about bees and beekeeping, you couldn’t hope for a better mentor in the noble art of beekeeping! Bruce is a gifted, enthusiastic and clear-eyed teacher. And so, what started as a “box to check” to obtain the Ag exemption for our property in New Ulm has turned out to be a joy and an adventure!”

Bekra Yorke, MDNew Ulm, TX

“In January 2023 I decided I wanted to be a beekeeper both to help the struggling bee population and hopefully in a few years receive an Ag exemption. The problem was I knew nothing about setting up an apiary. At my first Bastrop County Beekeepers meeting I had the great pleasure of meeting Bruce Ford. Bruce quickly became my friend and mentor. He patiently answered all the questions I had and explained to me what we needed to do to accomplish my goals. By spring he had me set up with my first colonies of bees. When you meet Bruce, you instantly understand that he loves what he does. He loves to teach and help others become good stewards of the bees and our land. Bruce continues to teach me how to best care for my bee yard. He has great knowledge, passion, and a desire to make others successful beekeepers. If you are considering becoming a beekeeper whether as a business venture, for pleasure, or to seek an Ag status for your property I would highly recommend you contact Bruce Ford. He has been a blessing for me!”

Brent HollingsworthBastrop County, TX

Why choose us?

Small scale family owned farm

When you buy Ron’s Feeding Stimulant for Bees you support a local, family owned, small scale farm and contribute to a thriving community of passionate beekeepers.

Passionate & community-oriented

I, Bruce Ford, am passionate about raising honey bees and getting others involved in beekeeping and I am active in several local beekeepers’ associations. This passion led me to establish and maintain honey bee yards and mentor individuals in the fine art of beekeeping in central Texas. As a result, I now develop new solutions for my own needs and when they work well I share them with my beekeepers’ community so we can improve our practices all together

Beekeeping & homesteading experience

I live with my on family on a 16 acre organic farm near Ellinger, Texas where I practice with different compost designs, microbial brewing with compost and soil microbe philosophy, beekeeping, rainwater catchment, radio communication, growing native plants, herbs and medicinal plants by propagation from seeds and cuttings. As a gardener-farmer, I raise many different varieties of pollinator plants to support the honey bees.

I embrace the grassroots homestead movement in central Texas by sharing skillsets, hosting workshops and promoting the farming community movement here in central Texas. In addition to running a small farm, I consult with new land owners on how to get agricultural exemptions with bees and wildlife management programs. 

Place an Order

Ron’s Feeding Stimulant for Bees

$25.00

A natural honeybee feeding stimulant concentrate made up of lemongrass oil, lavender oil and spearmint essential oils. This formula encourages bees to expand their colonies and draw out new comb, as well as helps keep hives cleaner and improves overall colony health.

Out of stock

You might also like

Ron’s Super Bee Juice Concentrate

$25.00

A natural honeybee treatment and stimulant concentrate that includes a special mix of Essential Oils, Amino Acids, Vitamins, Electrolytes and Microbes for Bees. This healthy formula encourages bees to draw out new comb and expand new colonies with new brood.

Out of stock

Ron’s Treatment Kit: Feeding Stimulant + Super Bee Juice Concentrate

$45.00

We offer a kit with both of Ron’s concentrates: Ron’s Feeding Stimulant + Ron’s Super Bee Juice Concentrate!

Out of stock

Ross Creek Feeder Kit: Hive Top Feeder + Ron’s Feeding Stimulant + Super Bee Juice Concentrate

$95.00

We offer a kit with our custom hive top feeder and both of Ron’s concentrates: Custom Hive Top Feeder + Ron’s Feeding Stimulant + Ron’s Super Bee Juice Concentrate!

Out of stock