Feeding the bees
The best food for the bees is their own honey. However, if your bees have not been able to build up enough supplies to survive the winter, it may be necessary to provide extra nutrition.
- Solid feed
- Solid feed can be given during the colder months when it is too cold for syrups. Solid feed are certainly suitable in early spring when the bees' winter supplies are slowly running out.
Fondant can be fed to your bees in different ways. You can place fondant directly on the windows. This ensures that the bees can access it immediately, and is ideal when the bees are already weakened by food shortage. You can also place the fondant on a queen grid, this ensures that the fondant does not slide between the windows when it becomes softer due to the temperature in the beehive. Finally, you can also put the fondant in a plastic container or in a plastic bag with a slot opening and place it upside down on the cover plate with feeding opening. When the bees are in good condition they will go through the feeding hole to the fondant and eat the fondant from the inside. This is a good method as it will disturb the bees the least and you can easily add more fondant if needed.
In our webshop you can find different brands of solid feeds: Candipolline, Fondabeefruc, Sint Ambrosius, Apifonda, ...
- Liquid feed
- Liquid feed such as syrup cannot be given when it is too cold. But as long as the outside temperature is above 10 °C, syrup can be given. We offer syrups in jerry cans of 14 kg, but you can also have your own jerry cans filled with us. Contact us to fill your own jerry cans. Pay attention! We only fill clean recipients.
- Sugar melters
- We offer a number of sugar melters that we produce ourselves. With a sugar melter you can effortlessly, without heating or stirring, make a saturated sugar solution that can be fed directly to your bee.
- Sugar
- Sugar can be used to make a sugar water to feed your bees. Usually the sugar water is presented in a container at the bottom of the hive. Be careful that the bees do not drown in this container. If necessary, a little straw can be added to prevent this.
- Vitamins as an additive to the diet
- Vitamins are used to help strengthen your bee colonies. It gives them a better resistance and certain bee diseases are controlled.
