Never feed your bees with dry sugar - Sugar bee candy patties recipe

To make the bees easily survive the winter, I make this bee candy. This is a very simple recipe. I only need to take 2 ingredients: icing sugar and honey. I mix everything thoroughly to get a patty, which I put on top of the frames with bees. If the honey in the frames runs out, the bees will rise to the top bar of the frames and start eating bee candy. Even weak colonies of bees overwinter well with such additional food.
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[@bradgoliphant]

This is interesting and have never seen this before. Yet I do see an issue with using powdered sugar? Powdered sugar has starch in it, and the bees can't process this in the winter so it could end up hurting them. Frederick Dunn has taught me this

[@easy-beezee6975]

Thanks for the valuable advice. Unfortunately, the powdered sugar that is sold in the store cannot be used due to the starch. I make the powdered sugar myself on a coffee grinder. If there are not many hives, this is easy to do. And we need to take honey from our own apiary. These patties are very helpful if put in while the bees are not starving. If the bees are already exhausted from hunger, it is better to use sugar syrup.

[@davidater9]

Nice and simple.

[@easy-beezee6975]

Thank you 😀

[@مناحلأبوإسحاقالوهرانيالجزائري]

good

[@easy-beezee6975]

شكر. سأحاول صنع فيديو عن الحلوى بحبوب اللقاح في الأيام القادمة

[@dianeking1]

Why not feed bees dry sugar???

[@Инкубацияяиц.Особенностиинкуба]

Dry sugar can only be eaten by a very strong bee colony at a time when it has not yet weakened from hunger. Bees, weak in strength or exhausted by hunger, cannot eat dry sugar. This fact is confirmed by many videos on KZbin. And the supplement in the form of soft candy is suitable for eating any bee colonies. But if you're good at feeding sugar to the bees, that's great!

[@easy-beezee6975]

Bees cannot eat dry food, they can only suck liquid food. The design of many hives is made so that excess moisture is removed from the hive. Also, the weather, the strength of the colony, and other factors can cause the sugar to remain solid. It often happens that the colony dies despite the fact that the beekeeper has given the bees dry sugar.

[@Makermook]

I've been told to never feed store-bought honey to my bees because it might give them diseases. Is this true?

[@easy-beezee6975]

Unfortunately, different types of diseases can be transmitted through honey, for example, nosematosis. Therefore, it is best to use honey that is taken from your own apiary.

[@Makermook]

@@easy-beezee6975 -- Bummer. This is my first year, so I don't have any of my own honey.

[@easy-beezee6975]

@@Makermook In the coming days I will make a video on how to make a good candy without honey. I will definitely leave you a link. This is a very simple recipe and the bees like this candy

[@easy-beezee6975]

Hi, Mark. This is the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5mVgmyhg8aEr9U The candy is soft, I put it on the frames in a thin plastic bag so the patty doesn't fall down. On top, I cover this with a cover . The bees gnaw the bag and take out the food. Under the patty, I make sure to put some slats or dry sticks about 1 cm or 1/3 inch in diameter so that the bees can freely pass under it. I grind sugar on a coffee grinder. I need to grind 1 kg of sugar to make two patties. I will give this to bees even if they have a lot of honey in November. I do my first inspection of the hive in early January. And then every 2 weeks, even if it's cold. I remove the cover of the hive and if the bees have eaten more than half of the patty, I add another one

[@vytbbb7146]

how long will they eat this?

[@Инкубацияяиц.Особенностиинкуба]

It depends on the strength of the colony and the amount of food in the hive. If there is little food in the hive, the bees eat it in a week or two. We need constant monitoring. I forgot to mention in the video that the powdered sugar from the store contains starch. So I grind the sugar myself. Honey must be taken from your apiary without disease. Thank you for visiting my channel 👍

[@MuskratOutdoors]

Do you leave it in the plastic bag, or take it out?

[@easy-beezee6975]

In a plastic thin bag, bees gnaw it easily. If you put the cake without a plastic bag, it becomes too soft and may fall down after the bees have heated it. In the bag, the food is well eaten by bees. It is better to knead a harder patty, but I don't always succeed. But bees eat a softer candy more willingly.

[@Platoon3090]

Nice way to spread AFB to a hive. Bone head.

[@easy-beezee6975]

Of course, if there are cases of this disease in your apiary, it is better not to use this feeding method. On my channel there is a video on how to cook candy without honey. But I think during the season the beekeeper can understand if the colonies are sick and if this honey can be used. The symptoms are very obvious. As you can see, I still have a couple of thoughts in my bone head :)

[@Platoon3090]

@@easy-beezee6975 I’m not talking about the Method. You didn’t let people no never use this method with store bought honey. Yeah my bee hives may not have AFB but the commercial bee yard in Canada or some other honey operation may have it in their honey. I guess my gripe was you weren’t clear that the honey you use should be from your own apiary and even more specific from the same hive. Peace dude.

[@easy-beezee6975]

You are right, thanks. Hope viewers read your comment.

[@aefamilyfarms6523]

Maybe show new beekeepers that have no clue, using your own beehives first. Then tour next video can show all the dead best and why not to use powdered sugar, lol

[@Инкубацияяиц.Особенностиинкуба]

This method of feeding bees is good if the beekeeper applies it correctly. In my hives, the frames are narrow-high. If in the fall they are full of honey, then the bees do not need additional feeding. But it happens that there is not enough honey for various reasons. And if there are no honey reserves, the use of such candy is very helpful. I can also add pollen or medicines. I like this way. But I don't force anyone to use it - everyone has their own head on their shoulders 😀

[@АшреганЛепаро]

С пол стакана воды еще надо. Задеревенеет твоя лепеха.