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. 

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

Tools Needed

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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. 

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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ADVICE

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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