Bee Feed
Bion Liquid Probiotic
Liquid probiotic that adds to and supports the beneficial bacteria in the bees’ gut — 10–25 mL per litre of cake or syrup. 1.25 litres.
Unit price: 239.20 SEK/l
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- Plant and mineral based — no animal ingredients
- No residue in honey or comb
- Usable all season, every season
- Safe to use during the honey flow
The one that does nothing you can see
Bion is a probiotic: beneficial bacteria that go into the syrup, to add to and support the bacteria living in the bee’s digestive system — the ones doing the actual work — so that they build up in balance rather than in whatever order a hard spring happens to leave them.
Which matters most at precisely the wrong moment. A colony coming out of winter has the most delicate gut it will have all year, and the first syrup of the season is the heaviest thing you will ask it to digest.
It adds to the workers you never see. What is in the bottle is bacteria, not something that acts on the bee itself. They join and support the population in the gut that does the digestive work — which is why the effect is indirect, and why this is the one most often left out of the bucket.
Out of winter is the fragile moment. Bees that have just come through a winter have the least robust digestion of the year, and the year’s heaviest feed is what arrives first.
Digestion sits upstream of everything. Brood feeding, build-up, the pace of the whole spring — all of it runs on what the colony gets out of what it eats, rather than on what you put in the bucket.
A bee’s own defences run through its gut. That much is well established in the research on honey bee gut microbiomes: the flora is part of how a bee holds itself together. So supporting the flora is supporting what the bee defends itself with. The support is this product’s part; the defending is the bee’s.
A quiet product: nothing about it shows on the day. What it does is support and protect the colony gut flora — the physiological condition every bit of nutrient uptake rests on. Natural, and no residue in honey or comb.
Into cooled syrup, never hot — below 30–40 °C. Heat destroys live cultures and enzymes, and syrup you have just made is far too warm.
Vita, Bion and Cont are worth most together, in the same syrup — alongside Vita Bee Vitamin and Cont Digestive Enzymes for Bees.
The same probiotic comes absorbed into hard sugar, as a tablet given without mixing feed: Bionix Solid Probiotic Supplement.
Product Description
Usage
- For honey producers (cake/syrup)
- add 10–25 mL per 1 litre of cake or syrup, once the syrup has cooled.
- Note
- the product’s smell may bother you but is harmless to your bees.
Sprayed during the honey period as needed. Shake well before use.
Intended Use
- Feed type
- a liquid complementary feed for bees, with probiotic cultures.
- Probiotic
- adds to and supports the beneficial bacteria in the bee’s digestive system.
- Together
- worth most alongside Vita and Cont, in the same syrup.
- Origin
- made from naturally occurring substances, with no synthetically produced molecules.
Storage
Store in the original packaging at 5–20 °C, away from sunlight.
Best before
24 months from the date of manufacture.
Warnings
Keep out of reach of children. Do not use if the security lock is broken or missing.
End of product description.
Storage and shelf life
- Keep out of reach of children.
- Store in the original packaging at 5–20 °C, protected from direct sunlight.
- Shelf life 24 months from the date of manufacture. The date is printed on the packaging.
Manufacturing and control
Manufacturer: Bolworm Bolgübsan, Bolu, Turkey
Approval number: α TR-1400083
Health certificate: 26-17-000450 — latest consignment
Approved feed establishment with the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry since 18 Feb 2021, under Law No. 5996 on Veterinary Services, Plant Health, Food and Feed. A new health certificate is issued by the General Directorate of Food and Control for every consignment — without it the goods may not leave the country.
Composition
- Live cultures
- Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus salivarius, Bacillus subtilis
From the manufacturer’s certificate of analysis RS180373 (a type certificate for the product, not batch-specific).
- Exporter
- Gost Sağlık Arı ve Arıcılık Ürünleri, Çanakkale
- Official supervision
- The manufacturer is under regular inspection by the Ministry of Agriculture’s food inspectors. Export is permitted only if the consignment passes the check — our consignment list, naming every product and its lot number, is stamped as checked and signed by the inspector.
- Manufacturing
- The manufacturer declares that the products are made in accordance with current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and applicable legislation.
- Import and Swedish supervision
- PMA Nordic AB is a registered feed business operator with the Swedish Board of Agriculture (SE67569098) and is therefore subject to Swedish feed control. The goods are customs-cleared into the EU with us as declarant.
- Origin
- Turkey
- In our own apiary
- We use the range in our own hives in Svinninge.
Printable product sheet
One A4, double-sided — Swedish on the front, English on the back. What it is, how to use it, dosage, storage and the numbers behind the product. Made to live in the box in the apiary, where you rarely have a signal.
See how it is used
Four supplements, one bucket — how I mix the autumn syrup
Opens on YouTube in a new tab. The full film is narrated in Swedish, the short version in English.
How we think about supplements
No treatment — preparation. A supplement for bees is roughly what a multivitamin from the grocery shop is for us, not something you collect at the pharmacy. It fills gaps in the diet, no more and no less.
Think of the colony as a skilled cook. We set out flour, eggs and oil — then it cooks its own meal. One day that is an omelette for the protein, another day something that mostly gives energy. We do not choose the recipe; we make sure the ingredients are there. It shows in how they take: one hive finishes a tablet in a fortnight, another needs a month or more. Bees have managed this for millions of years.
And that is how the build-up holds together. The gut flora is where nutrition is absorbed; support it and the bees get more out of the same feed. The queen lays according to what the colony can feed — when the nutrition is inside, so is the signal.
A colony wants to grow. That is biology: bees build up and swarm when they can, and the limit is set by forage and flow, not by willingness. In Turkey beekeepers often split one hive into three or four in a season. In Svinninge one is hard work — the season is shorter and the flow smaller. That is the gap a supplement exists to fill.
Who developed the range
We import and sell the Dr. Gost range, and it is worth saying where it comes from, because provenance is a fact rather than a claim.
The range was developed and tested by Dr. Soner Güner, who holds a doctorate in beekeeping and has more than twenty years of research behind him. He is the author of Yeni Nesil Doğal Arıcılık — "New-Generation Natural Beekeeping" — described by its Turkish bookseller as the first written work in the country on the subject, and he runs a YouTube channel and an Instagram account of some eighteen thousand followers, both about bees and natural products. This is a range formulated by someone whose profession is the study of bees, not a white-label bought in and relabelled.
He works inside a tradition rather than alone. Turkey is the world’s second-largest honey producer by volume and third by number of hives — and the largest in Europe by a wide margin — on its own more than a third of the entire EU’s honey output, with some four times as many hives per inhabitant as the EU average. Beekeeping is taught there as a university degree with a state research institute behind it, and Anatolia holds five native subspecies of Apis mellifera.
The manufacturer’s own product information states that its active ingredients derive from university studies. Which university, and which studies, is something we have asked our supplier to document. Until that paperwork is in our hands, we report that sentence as theirs rather than as ours.
This is not a medicine. The product is not intended to prevent, treat or cure disease.
Common questions
- Does it contain anything of animal origin?
- The manufacturer declares this product to be entirely of plant and mineral origin, containing no ingredients of animal origin — no honey, milk, meat, egg, animal protein or animal fat.
- Does it leave any residue in the honey?
- No. The products leave no residue in honey or comb, so a colony that gets them still produces honey you can harvest and sell normally.
- Can I use it during the honey flow?
- Yes. Because nothing carries over into the honey, they can be used during the flow rather than only in the gaps between harvests.
- How often can it be used?
- They can be used continuously through the season and repeated season after season — there is no withdrawal period to plan around and no rotation requirement.
- The product smells rather sharp — is something wrong?
- No, that is expected. The product has a fairly sharp smell, and that is how it should be. To bees the smell is attractive rather than off-putting. How people take it is more personal: some find it odd, others hardly notice.
- How long does it keep, and how should it be stored?
- Each pack carries a recommended use-by date, generally 24 months from manufacture. Keep it in its original packaging between 5 and 20 °C, out of direct sunlight. The smell and any settling may change over time — that belongs to a naturally produced, fermented product.
- Can I return an opened product?
- No. For health and hygiene reasons, a product whose own vented plastic cap or inner packet has been opened cannot be returned (EU Consumer Rights Directive art. 16). The outer shipping box does not count — you may open the parcel and look at the goods. Products with their own seal intact can be returned within 14 days.
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