Posted by Surreybeekeeper | Posted in Beehaus, Beehives, Beekeeping, Beekeeping Equipment, Bees, Feeding bees, Inspections, Winter | Posted on 13-02-2011
Tags: bees fondant, feeding, Feeding bees, feeding bees in Spring, feeding bees in winter, feeding bees with fondant, fondant feeding, fondant with bees, should I feed my bees fondant?, spring feeding for bees, winter feeding for bees
So the time has come for feeding my bees in Spring (or thereabouts anyway!) and so I had looked at the research. Appartently feeding bees with sugar syrup is a bad idea this early in the year because the syrup can freeze. Therefore Bakers Fondant was the recommended feed for bees. One slight problem however was not having the slightest clue what bakers fondant actually was.
As it turns out it is basically icing that goes on the top of cakes (as you can see from the pictures) but is appartently the best for feeding bees in Spring. So I did a little bit of research (as well as visiting various supermarkets and asking around with the response of several blank faces……fondant for bees? You’ve got to be kidding…..) and found that a great place for fondant (in the UK) was Bako which is essentially a wholesaler of baking products. Read the rest of this entry »
