Let's Make A Candy Board Recipe For Bees
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A candy board is a block of crystalline sugar placed at the top of the hive.
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Bees can consume this sugar, metabolize it and turn it into more heat, moisture, and carbon dioxide.
What Is A Candy Board For Bees?
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If we mix this sticky sugar into the rest of the sugar it will glue the sugar together much like cement sticks concrete together.
A Candy Board Recipe For Bees
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- A tablespoon measure
- 5 Gallon Bucket/pail
- measuring cup or jug
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Ingredients
- 16 lb sugar - Clean water - White spirit vinegar (minimum 4-5% acidity as labeled on the bottle)
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Candy Board
A candy board is a block of crystalline sugar placed at the top of the hive.
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You can use a sort of digging and then stirring motion and try to get the entire sugar volume just a little damp.
Mixing
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As small hive beetles spread around the world, it makes it harder and harder to mix pollen or pollen substitute into your candy board mix.
Candy Boards and Small Hive Beetles
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You can collect the leftover sugar in the candy boards and dissolve it in water to make your spring sugar syrup for feeding the bees.
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