permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

Feeding wild bees during Winter - how to do it?

I discovered that I have on my 6 acre property more wild bees than I 
thought (maybe they are those who swarmed from my hives and left for
new homes as forest dwellers). I poured out two quarts of honey that had 
ants in them onto a compost pile on a garden bed. Soon there were 
hundreds of bees foraging for the honey. I have done this many times but 
this is the first time I have seen any bees attracted to the honey.

Is it possible to feed wild forest-dwelling bees during the Winter? I am 
in central NC USDA zone 6/7.

LL