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Beekeeping: How to make Sugar Boards for Honey Bees
How to create Sugar (or Candy) Boards for honeybees. These sugar boards are given to the beehives in the fall as an addtional souce of food during the cold winter months. Some refer to these lids or other styles of sugar boards as 'bee insurance'.
Winter Feeding Honey Bees Sugar Blocks Recipe
As winter is on its way and time to start thinking of getting them ready for winter i thought i would bump this video back to the top
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Make a candy board to overwinter a honeybee colony
In this video, I discuss the benefits of a candy board for overwintering a beehive. Here in SE Indiana, the winters can be long and cold. While I try to have 40+ pounds of honey on a colony before we go into the winter, sometimes, it just doesn’t happen, even if I don’t take a fall honey harvest. So, a candy board is a great way to finish carrying the colony through the winter until spring. Not only does it extend their food stores, but it wicks moisture and prevents condensation from forming above the bee cluster and dripping back down on to them. Bees can take the cold… but they can’t take being cold and wet. There is also a small hole drilled in the front of the candy board that allows excess moisture to escape the top of the hive. Not only that, but in a scenario where the lower entrance is blocked, this hole can also allow the bees out the top to do their needed cleansing flights on warmer flight days. It’s kind of like an insurance policy. It helps a hive through the winter… and any uneaten sugar that is left can be used to make your 1:1 sugar water feed in the spring.
Here's a basic recipe:
2:1 Sugar Water 8lbs sugar to 1/2 gallon of water.
1:1 Sugar Water 4lbs sugar to 1/2 gallon of water.
1 tsp. plain white vinegar (optional)* 1 tsp. HBH if you have it (optional)
* If you choose to use the vinegar (as a mold inhibitor) add it to the water and never use Apple Cider Vinegar as it attracts SHB.
Now of course it’s true that cane sugar is not the best food for a bees gut. I get it… but a colony that has starved over the winter is even worse. I believe when we put bees into a box and keep them from swarming and taking a share of honey, then it’s our responsibility to do all we can to make up for their well-being. The candy board is an indispensable tool that has worked from me every year.
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Beekeeping | Feeding Your Bees In The Winter In 30 Seconds
Beekeeping in the winter means feeding your bees a candy board but is it too cold to open the hive? I'll show you how to feed your bees in 30 seconds. It's important to reduce moisture in the hive with a candy board in the winter. Today we'll experiment with feeding our bees and monitoring the moisture at the same time.
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Feeding Bees in Winter - Making Candy Boards
Today I make candy boards impregnated with pollen substitute for supplemental feeding bees in the winter months:
Recipe for a 10 frame langstroth hive 10lbs granulated sugar 1 1/2 c. corn syrup or 2:1 sugar water 2 1/2 c. water 1 1/4 c. Pollen substitute (Ultrabee or other)