I guess I need to start by telling you that the pollen substitute did not cause the regicide — I was an accessory to that crime, but I have no idea of how hubby actually disposed of the evil queen once I helped catch her! We have another hive that has just become more andContinue reading “Pollen Substitute and Regicide”
Category Archives: Supplemental Feeding
Candy Boards – Feeding Bees
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxQGGFj02I&w=320&h=266] Candy boards are a great way to feed the bees in your hives without feeding all of the bees in the neighborhood. The above video from Brush Mountain uses cooked fondant, which is what we have been doing successfully for two years now — we just poured the fondant into paper plates and placedContinue reading “Candy Boards – Feeding Bees”
Division feeder
Last week, we installed a division feeder in my English hive. When I checked the hive yesterday, the feeder was empty. Some must have evaporated as the ladders don’t quite reach the bottom, but the bees drank a gallon of nectar. It was easy to remove the cap and ladder to check and refill theContinue reading “Division feeder”
What I’ve learned while making fondant for bees
Let me preface this post by saying that I know some of these things should be painfully obvious, but I hope that some of my readers are, at times, as distracted as I while trying to do many things at once — like playing SimCity while cooking. Lesson 1: Respect the capabilities of your equipment. Continue reading “What I’ve learned while making fondant for bees”
Cooking for bees
I finally made a successful batch of bee fondant using the recipe from Honey Bee Suite. I like the common-sense approach of the author, and I was able to use my experience from three failed batches to improve what I was doing with recipes in general. Five pounds of sugar yielded six paper dinner platesContinue reading “Cooking for bees”
Lazer Creek Apiary 