Like a package except if the queen is mated they'll build up faster. Feed them to get them going, make sure not to overfeed, and get another brood box on in another week or two (depending on swarm size and amount of feeding).
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a swarmn has 3 days food with it. It starts comb building with it..
Essential is that how many frames bees cover . If bees cover all 10 frames, they draw those combs.
Feed feed feed in the middle of the summer means that soon the combs are full of sugar and it restrict the amount of brood.
3-4 weeks later new bees start go emerge. Before that bees are not able to draw more combs than they did on first week. And before emerging ghe colony hs only half of bee number of he soriginal swarm. Thy re not ble to draw more foudations or occupye.
Feed feed feed means hat you spoil the colony progress. but try to maximaze he brood area.
When bees cary food from outside they need not sugar feeding.
The less sugar or honey in the hive, the more brood to create new bees after 3 weeks
mostly the biggest enemy of start of beekeeping is that honey fills a tiny hive.feeding just make it faster - yes, the spoiling.