How Much Sugar Water Do Bee Hives Consume?

A thriving honey bee colony can consume a lot of sugar water in a short period of time. Ray takes a moment to discuss this very interesting topic.
MountainSweetHoney.com/bees

[@tireballastserviceofflorid7771]

This last week. With a light hive one hive ate a half gallon in 6 days. As for the flow... we already had a large flow this year. Then a cold snap stalled it. Now we have a solid wild flower flow. Cabbage palm and palmetto are blooming from Melbourne to Brooksville. This has been our best spring in 3 years with no drought this year. Our cold snap of 36 stopped most of tue flow cold. Had a lot of issues with a hearty hive amd suddenly no food. We had loads of pollen 6 weeks ago. Anything south of Orlando will have a flow all winter of some kind. Only in July through September are we totally devoid of bee food. Tampa already has palmetto honey from this year available.

[@ronaldkoenig7057]

I received two packages of bees in early march one were in laying and doing well the other hive shows no sign of the queen any thoughts?

[@gallowaylights]

This sounds expensive one pound a day?