This past weekend, I received my first shipment of bees. After placing them in the two waiting hives, I put a quart canning jar filled with 1:1 sugar/water mixture on top of the feeder holes on each hive.The lids for the jars, ordered from a beekeeping supply, came pierced with about twenty tiny holes. The jars on the hives are now empty, after being on the hives less than 24 hrs. Are there too many holes in the lids that allowed the sugar syrup to drain too quickly, and if so, should I try using other lids with only a couple of tiny holes that I will make myself?
Thanks for any suggestions that you have.