Bee Feed
Vita Bee Vitamin
Liquid bee vitamin with amino acids, 1.25 litres. Stirred into cake or syrup at 10–25 mL per litre, or sprayed diluted during the honey flow.
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
What a short season demands
In the north the season is short and everything in a bee’s world has to happen fast. A colony that is strong at the flow is a colony that was built in April, and nothing about that timing is forgiving.
A productive hive wants to be somewhere near fifty thousand bees at least forty days before the flow. That is not a target you can chase once the flow arrives — a bee laid today is not foraging for six weeks.
Forty days ahead, or not at all. Three weeks from egg to emergence, and about three more before that bee forages. Whatever you want flying at the flow has to be laid before you can see the flow coming.
Early spring is when it is scarcest. Population is built out of vitamins, minerals and amino acids — and finding them and carrying them home is a job in itself, in the weeks when there is least of either to be had.
What it does during build-up. Amino acids are the building blocks of the protein a colony puts into brood and into its own brood-food glands, and the vitamins are what its metabolism works with. Vita supports colony strength through build-up and through dearth — the stretch where the need is greatest and the forage least.
Straight into the syrup. It goes into feed you are already giving, so the colony does not spend a single flight looking for it. That is the whole point of the format.
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.
When syrup is not an option — a cold spell, or the depth of winter — the same actives come pressed into a hard tablet: Vitax Bee Supplement.
And it is not the only thing that belongs in the bucket. We would put Bion Liquid Probiotic and Cont Digestive Enzymes for Bees into the same syrup alongside it.
Product Description
Usage
- With cake or syrup
- add 10–25 mL per 1 litre of cake or syrup.
- During the honey period
- mix 50–100 mL with 1 litre of water and spray. Shake well before use.
- Note
- the product's smell may bother you but is harmless to the bees.
What it is
- Composition
- vitamins, minerals and amino acids in liquid form, of plant and mineral origin — amino acids are protein in broken-down form.
- Feed type
- a complementary feed for bees — added to cake, syrup or spray water.
- Format
- 1.25 litres, dosed per litre of feed.
Storage
Store in its original packaging at 5–20 °C, protected 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
- Humic and fulvic acid
- 18.89 %
- Amino acids
- arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, cystine
- Calcium
- 1.26 %
- Sodium
- 1.79 %
- Iron
- 0.056 %
- Phosphorus
- 0.015 %
- Magnesium
- 0.014 %
- Zinc
- 31.13 mg/l
- Copper
- 7.33 mg/l
- Selenium
- 0.15 mg/l
From the manufacturer’s certificate of analysis RS180373 (a type certificate for the product, not batch-specific).
Stated by the manufacturer
- Vitamins
- C (ascorbic acid), B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), B7 (biotin), B9 (folate), B12 (cobalamin), A (retinol), D3 (cholecalciferol), E (tocopherol)
The manufacturer’s statement. This line is not part of the certificate of analysis above — the analysis report has been requested, and when it arrives the levels will appear here as figures.
- 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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