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The moisture from bee respiration condenses on cool surfaces just like dew. Your blog and website is a favorite of mine. Only your other posts say the recommended is after the solstice, I’m wondering the impact the pollen patties would be having if you put them on in November, or will the bees just use them when they want to in spring because as you said it is a ‘free choice patty’. Also, hundreds of other beekeepers have told me how well these have worked. I decided to add the pollen supplement (as others have recommended) so that as spring approaches the bees will have an ample supply for brood rearing. Perhaps my wording was not delicate, and I apologize for that. HoneyMoney is the only tool specifically designed to help people save more money. I’m only telling you want I do. I followed your sugar/water recipe for baker sugar (10# sugar and 10 tablespoons water) with regular granulated sugar. Rusty, on another related topic what do you think of using these year round when you are going to feed nucs etc. didn’t lose a grain of sugar. I always hear stories that honey bees will not go through plastic excluders, so after a few minutes, I lifted the quilt for a quick peek. I was checking hives every week or so and replenishing sugar as consumed. They are easy to make, the bees love them, and any leftover candy can be reused or dissolved into syrup for spring. You said you didn’t follow all the directions, but I don’t think you followed any of them. You must have some kind of equivalent up there. I love the no-cook candy boards. I will give it a try and report back. I, for example, am still uncomfortable with oxalic acid vaporization, so I don’t use it. When I lifted the moisture quilt to my surprise it looked like a large part of the cluster was above the candy board queen excluder and large part was most likely below it. As for year-round feeding of sugar, I find that honey bees simply stop eating hard sugar when there is nectar to be found. I continue to experiment with timing. https://www.honeybeesuite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Cals-candyboards-Edit.jpeg. Rusty, I’ve got my feeders built per your specs. Later, when the wood is removed, the empty space provides the place where the air will flow from the colony up into the moisture quilt. Then the bees add water so they can eat it. As I am in Gig Harbor, WA, I especially value your advice as our climates are virtually the same. No, the candy won’t ever slump to the floor if you followed the directions. I have feeding shims on my hives but they do not have the entrance hole. As I explain in other parts of this site, my job is not to tell a beekeeper “you should do it this way.” My job is to offer alternatives, to describe ways that some people found helpful, and when I know the science behind something, I try to explain it. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. I have no results to report, no findings to share. A little tricky getting it to stay in there, especially once they start eating it. This looks really interesting. I did a quick search, but didn’t find them. Thank you for your time, and for this wonderful site. I might work just fine. I am part of a collective here and was told for ventilation to use popsicle sticks but I am curious about moisture quilts and would like to try it on a couple of my hives. I’m in north central Texas. Long story short, I think it doesn’t work. Is there a chance they too would be excluded or get stuck in the new excluder trying to get to the sugar? So when do the wintergreens come in? How will the bees get through the tiny holes? The dude I’m getting them from has lost two more since Monday. I unfortunately can’t do that as I have a flat roof design where the roof rests directly on top of the bars. The appearance of a partially consumed cake/brick confirms this, as we see fissures extending into the depth of the cake (like a glacier melting). Here are the injection-molded frames (i.e. I developed a system I’m comfortable with and other beekeepers do the same. Now is the time to bring HoneyMoney to the English world as well. I believe that. I will give it some further thought. Wintergreen probably won’t hurt anything, but it probably won’t help either. You may find they cart out crystals for a while and then stop when the boards harden, which they will do. (xp14882) on Pornhub.com, the best hardcore porn site. Good afternoon. Thank you for putting together and maintaining this very informative website. If you are going to feed in the fall, syrup is a good idea. That sounds perfect, quick and easy. and when would you stop (March?) 😀 –sarah. Last year was a bad year and I was forced to put them on early. Maybe that’s just due to the food mixer 🙂 I’ve tried to mention these ideas to other beeks in my local association but people can be stubborn with keeping to methods used for years with no ‘obvious’ undesirable results. I almost always have to supplement it come spring, with about ten more pounds. I always try to leave enough honey on for them to make it through the winter, then I add the candy board “just in case.” Usually, they end up eating all of it, but not always. I sometimes think it’s more about the keepers than the bees. At one time many people thought wintergreen had a measurable effect on varroa mites, but I don’t think the theory has proven to be true. But Aram, the hard candy method goes back to doing the two things I didn’t want to do: cooking and inverting the board. Excellent idea and design!! https://www.honeybeesuite.com/how-to-make-a-moisture-quilt-for-a-langstroth-hive/. Thanks for all the info for overwintering. Will the bees have trouble if the blocks are too hard? I will look at the gutter guard, sounds like an interesting idea. I am so cheap I do the same thing but use the gutter guard that you buy at Lowes it comes in rolls 20′ long by 6″ wide and it is less than $4. Do I need to add one? Being near the lake limits my bees forage and they did not create a honey super although they have lots of honey within the brood boxes. They will not abandon the brood which, of course, is below the queen excluder. Why the need for the quilt? Personally, I don’t want anything between my brood box and my quilt box, although I’ve resigned myself to the candy board being there in the years when I use one. Last winter in Portland OR the temps were very mild. Yes, bee space. Thanks again. If the bees don’t need sugar, they usually stay down in the brood boxes. Too much available pollen/sub can lead to booming population growth far too early, and thus to swarming conditions when the weather is still cold/wet, unfavorable for working the hive, and drone numbers are not yet conducive to mating new queens. Next I made your recipe to fill the middle. Can I use metal queen excluders in place of the plastic. Thanks! I’m finding it tricky figuring out if hives have “enough” honey (and syrup) stored for the winter. Happy Thanksgiving. So too big can be tricky too. I have a gable roof over the bars which gives me plenty of space for feed. Couldn’t agree more. Yes, sometimes honey bees will dispose of the crystals as if it were garbage, which is why candy boards are usually given in the winter instead of the late fall. The quilt is the insulator that goes under the top cover. Hey, I make bread a lot, and I can knead just about anything together, “I’m sure this will work fine. Will bees store fondant? This is what dissolves the candy enough for them to eat it. Do bees reject candy boards? I fear they’re starving. Secondly, the no-cook candy board could not be flipped over because “upside down” doesn’t work well with uncooked sugar. It looks like I need to make some quilt boxes now to put on top of the candy boards. Also you mentioned in the same comment you would normally put on a bag of sugar in February/March if they had enough to get through winter. I’m worried that the 3″ hole may not let enough air flow through, but wanted to try it because the Vivaldi board would support the cloth bottom of the quilt box as well as provide room for the sugar pile. Thank you so much for answering all my questions. Then, if they store it, they need to drive that water back out again. I lay down wax paper and cut two access holes and cover them with small cups, then add the sugar mix. Fingers crossed! I wonder too whether the moisture in the sugar will form a chilled ceiling, but I guess you’ll find out. You know best what your climate is like. Baker’s sugar in small quantities can be expensive, but in the the 50-pound bag, I pay only 2 cents per pound more than regular sugar, which is totally worth it. The shim also has a 1/2 inch upper entrance opening. I don’t believe in telling a beekeeper how to to things because, believe it or not, beekeeping is very personal. Instead, they beg food from the workers. I am sure the bees don’t care either way, but I think I will probably revert to the hard candy method as rigidity of the block matters to me as far as placing it down on the frames and removing it when I need to examine frames in a hurry. However, I’m always trying different system so that 1) I can have something to write about (true) and 2) so I can answer questions about different systems (if I haven’t tried them myself, it’s hard to give solid answers). I love this method, plus it’s easy. Wouldn’t the sugar board absorb most of the moisture already? The hive needs to be dry so the honey can be cured. Of course, not. I think most of my colonies should get by on their own honey stores anyway, but the candy board is an insurance policy of sorts and not designed to replace all their food. I like to wait until after the winter solstice to give any protein supplement. The large cluster is connected to the food by a narrow path which the retrievers are using. The primary reason for using black felt is for heat absorption, as you pointed out. I will be using this for next winter. Just recently found your blog and am devouring it at a voracious pace. I wanted a no-cook candy board for several reasons. Hive is heavy enough that I can’t tip the back. You can also start with simple tracking, planning will come later. Bombus affinis, the Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee, has been so honored. See “The minimalist guide to winter feeding.”. Some of the moisture will condense on the underside of the candy board, which is a good thing because moisture on the surface of the hard candy allows the bees to consume it with ease. Should I use smoke in the winter? But it doesn’t change my advice. fondant, candy, sugar bricks, etc.) Or do you check throughout the winter and sometimes replace candy boards? I don’t know how else to explain it. I was really worried about honey reserves in the hive so I made this no cook candy board. The most primary tenet of beekeeping is that every colony is different, and local weather, climate, and floristic conditions change everything. However, no one warned me that this upper entrance would admit mice to the hive. Permacomb) I mentioned. .”. That first year and every year afterwards, my overwintering improved by leaps and bounds. Done. It is non-discriminatory, encompassing both honey bees and wild bees. Could robbers get through the imirie shim opening and steal the candy? This “carting away” is the reason that many beekeepers wait until cold weather before installing the boards, usually near the winter solstice. HoneyMoney increases your awareness about your money habits. It seems to me that two full mediums (assuming they are ten-frame) would weight about 60 pounds a piece, or let’s say about 120 pounds. I used regular cane sugar and found I needed to use a bit more water than your recipe. If they are dependent on it because they are short of honey, letting it go empty can result in a dead colony. I remember we had a discussion about all the foraging opportunities a big body of water displaces. Often you will hear three or four different pieces of advice, and one may feel really right and another may feel really wrong. It sounds to me like the system is working perfectly. Come spring, most were still HEAVY with honey. No, I’m not familiar with the injection molded frames. And there’s probably more in the brood boxes, so it sounds like you are in good shape. perhaps digestive problems? The feeder rims I used are plenty deep, and I think they could hold 25 pounds, depending on what you need in your area. Since my no-cook candy board will have ventilation through the center, and my quilt has ventilation ports, there is plenty of opportunity for air flow. Seems like it’d be super quick? 3. I’m starting to think I haven’t paid enough attention and just defaulted to fondant without measuring the results. Air can’t flow in because it’s flowing out. They may be able to tell you where they get it. I didn’t fill the 2″ space completely so still have room to add some less compressed blocks. Then one day I decided I was being conclusory and so I tried using them for these no-cook candy boards. Lastly, like you, I like to have a little protein available to ensure the queen can continue to lay as needed through the winter. * No need to connect to your online-banking (but you can import your historical data from CSV though). Thoughts? I’m afraid you will get condensation on the bottom of the Vivaldi board, even though you have extra insulation above. There’s probably little functional importance to the observation, other than if one is in a very dry climate it may help to jumpstart consumption of the sugar cake by misting with water before insertion. Watch XXXPAWN - Thick Babe Nina Kayy Makes That Pawn Shop Money, Honey! My third has lost quite a few bees in the last month relative to the other two (probably varroa related as you write elsewhere). Also, do you insulate the under part of the top cover? It also absorbs moisture from the cover. By spring, nothing is left. (No, I didn’t measure the wood; it was just a random piece I found under the saw table.) I also read that you don’t want anything solid between the brood food and the quilt box. Once complete, I spread a layer of plastic wrap on the table, placed the empty candy board on the wrap, and then positioned a piece of 2×4 lumber in the center of the candy board. It would be very interesting to put a cheap moisture and temperature sensor on the top of the frames before and after to see the effect. Its purpose it to discuss contemporary issues in beekeeping and bee science. Lots of love. I don’t know if it would act differently with regular sugar, but you can experiment. It works amazingly well. Drive out some and you get slurry. I understand now. Thanks, Rusty, for sharing your genius. In the final stages of getting hives ready for winter and have a few questions regarding no-cook candy board feeder and wrapping hives. —From Anatomy of the Honey Bee by Robert E. Snodgrass. While unnecessary for the sake of the bees, adding acid can help to prevent crystallization of syrup. End of story. I never lost a colony while using it. Instead of a queen excluder, I screen in the bottom with chicken wire. Then I remembered your candy board idea! Don’t have a lot of knowledge yet but I am learning. These are all excellent observations. I tailored it to my needs, and with time it became a small, but profitable business. So I figure, added to other colony stresses in winter, it just isn’t worth it. The non-native European Honey Bee is the state insect of: Not one native bee is a state insect. I’m going to do it. It’s only a very naive beekeeper who believes “his” way is the only way, or that his way will work everywhere. Now or later doesn’t matter at all. I used plastic queen excluders as recommended. I'm originally from Russia, that's why the initial version of HoneyMoney was launched in Russian back in 2011. They work so well they feel like magic. Moisture Quilt Leisa. Enough for bee space? I think it is a common misconception that the bees chew up the sugar cake; I’ve always felt the process is as you described. And yes, they will leave honey in place in order to go up and get the sugar. Thanks again to Rusty for sharing this method!!! It only means that I don’t like it. Today, while the weather and temp was good for doing it, I got a jump on the winter solstice OA vaporization chore. If the non-cooked candy didn’t fall out, doing this would serve both to support the quilt box above, and woulld eliminate the 2-3″ space that would otherwise be between the excluder and the quilt box, which the bees might feel the need to “fill”. Tom. In the warmer months, that is probably not the case. Great instructions. You do not need an upper entrance; they are an option. Don’t worry about it too much. I took one & attached hardware cloth that I shaped to fit the slanted sides. Capital One Shopping is a free browser extension that saves you money automatically Capital One Shopping is a free browser extension that locates and tries out promo codes, looks for lower prices on the items you’re viewing, and alerts you whenever there’s a better deal available from another retailer. I leave the shim on year round. Generally, bees will not eat sugar that’s on the floor like that. Also, do I understand correctly that the shim and candy go above the top-most box of capped honey? Yes, I have a separation between my top bars. We are in zone 5a in north-central part of Ohio. I’ve used these for two winters now with excellent results. But here’s my advice: if you don’t like the idea, don’t do it. This leads me to believe next year I will experiment making just one with 12 tablespoons of water, evaluate it, experiment some more if necessary and make the remaining candy boards. Thank you for the photos that really helped. with the Q excluder…I have been asked if the Q will get separated from the cluster during the winter…My personal experience is no they didn’t last year anyway….Any thoughts on this….. No, the workers will not abandon the queen and the brood. They will begin consuming it anytime it’s warm enough to break cluster, and seem to prefer it over their own honey. that they then say to use 1 TBL of the concentrate in 1 gallon of regular syrup…… would it be ok to incorporate that into the candy board mix or do you have a better suggestion for using essential oils to help prevent Nosema, etc? Beekeepers are everywhere. Your comments made me realize that while all year I have been taking care of the hives the same way during each inspection, they are different colonies with different needs. This candy board in addition to the moisture quilt works wonders. We’re located in south King County, WA, so really appreciate having near local advice about timing and techniques! Then the next layer becomes exposed and the same thing happens. FYI i am in NW MT where the temps are already dipping…..snow expected tomorrow, teens the next day, etc….. in case that makes a difference :} It is Zone 5 here….. 1. does it matter how deep your candy board is as in can a person have TOO MUCH candy, (too thick) in the hive? Sometimes the boards are empty by then. Thanks for all you do and write about. Thank you! Do you like this method over your “bag of sugar and place it on the top brood box” method? I just make a wooden frame 3/4″ for it. No money or honey: Jane De Leon recalls hardship before getting 'Darna' Jan Milo Severo (Philstar.com) - February 11, 2021 - 11:03am . Just above the brood box I added the Imirie shim with the opening in front, then the candy board, then the quilt, then the lid. When their honey is gone, they will eat the sugar that dissolves on the surface. The only way they can get to it is to go through the excluder, and they do. You just plan your future incomes and expenses in the calendar. Have a good day. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Do you have links to plans for the moisture quilts. By the time drones appear, you won’t have a candy board in place anymore. I can always just place a pollen patty on top of the sugar later in the year. Tried it last weekend. Although it can help with that too. It will greatly simplify making candy boards for the few hives we have that need them. In this example, I didn’t use plastic excluders for years because of all the “bad press” I heard about them. I don’t think the 3-inch hole is nearly enough to make the quilt work properly. It would depend on the situation. I leave lots of honey on my hives plus I start with a 10 lb. I’ve sent a photo of a representative one. I think you can use the metal ones, although I haven’t tried them. Surround it with a box and add a lid. However, our days were still in the 50s, and it does appear that one of the weakened hives got attacked by wasps. Having said that and reading comments, my entrance holes on my tbh are end entrances, 1″ holes, and I have another hole near to the top. The research I’ve read indicates that plain sucrose, in some no-cook form, achieves the best winter survival rates. Our temps were dropping into the 20s overnight, so I went ahead and made no-cook candy boards and placed them two days ago under their new quilt boxes (which work great!). I do not know if they have enough stores to make it through the winter (1 deep, 1 shallow each). As you recall, I had the “freak wind” accident and I do think my bees were weakened. But with the no-cook candy board, you basically end up with a brick by adding very little water to begin with, and then letting it dry. I have insulation above the sugar board, and under the telescoping outer cover. Thank you. That said, if I needed to feed that many bees in a big hurry, I would go buy those four-pound bags of sugar they sell at the grocery stores, lay one across the top bars directly over the cluster, slit the bag open across the top with a knife, surround it with a shallow super, and add the lid. Thank You. I absolutely want to use this idea I was just misinformed about winter bees. Listen up folks. The closest relative of a North American native bee to make the list is the Tarantula Hawk Wasp, the state insect of New Mexico. Just recording a number is not difficult, requires no new skills, and takes only 20 minutes a week. They did fine. What is the quilt everyone keeps talking about? Drive out more and you get fondant. Lay a sheet of newspaper on top and gently turn the pans over onto the newspaper. I’ve been using this system for years. Slice the top with a knife. Finally, could fondant be used as an alternative to liquid feed in the fall? But I’ve never tried it and I could be wrong. I did put some hard sugar I made in a cookie sheet on to of a queen separator about a week ago during a mild day. Within a couple of hours I had the same problems as Aram – “craps” thru the middle and lots of brittle crumbles. If a colony is small, I give them a board with pollen much earlier. How much sugar a colony will eat depends on lots of things such as the size of the colony, how much honey they have in the hive to start with, how cold the winter is, whether the colony is exposed to wind, etc. Even easier, you place a bag of sugar on the top bars. My instincts are telling me to place my shim and candy board under the quilt box now. Every candy board design I saw had a hole somewhere, either for an upper entrance or ventilation or both. If you want to return your product within 365 days we will takeit back. Pornhub is home to the widest selection of free Big Dick sex videos full of the hottest pornstars. That’s really the only difference. And finally, yes, I find early pollen feeding to be detrimental to colony development. Rusty this is a great idea. The system runs a simulation based on your planned expenses and transfers to Funds and Goals. And since you are in a colder climate, protecting the upper entrance from weather is a consideration. I need to feed them right away. Minnesota now has a state bee as well as a state insect. Has that changed with this new method of no-cook-sugar/candy-boards with ‘free choice’ patties, only February is a while past the solstice. Not at first, but as time goes by. This depends quite a bit on whether we get an early spring or not. Generally, with a big healthy colony, your instructor’s advice is okay. I have a question: I am confused on the difference between wintergreen patties and pollen patties, and which are appropriate to use. Also, what would your adversion be to putting down tissue paper then just adding the dry sugar? Can’t thank you enough for your tutelage and great How To articles in my first year! rusty@honeybeesuite.com, I put “candy boards” of the no-cook sort on all my hives around 1 Oct, each containing about 10 pounds. I’ve used your suggestion for the past three years, I’ve been keeping bees for about 7 years, at first I had two or three hives and each year I lost all my hives. Am i better off just letting the bees fill the gap with propolis if they choose or will it be too cold for them to do so? The first reason is that cooking sugar syrup is both dangerous and boring, a bad combination for me because when I’m bored I don’t pay attention. I will keep you posted. I wasn’t trying to offend you but to explain that if something like a queen excluder makes you uncomfortable, you shouldn’t use it. Down here I get it at Cash ‘n Carry, which is a restaurant supply store. The first reason is that cooking sugar syrup is both dangerous and boring, a bad combination for me because when I’m bored I don’t pay … I am a first year beekeeper in West Virginia. I let the mixer to the kneading and it worked out great! Quick question. (not with honey supers on). Once it’s too cold to fly, they won’t cart them out. I have a flat lid as well, but my lid sits on top of the legs, so that leaves about 1 1/2″ -2″ space between lid and top bars. But if they need it, large numbers of retriever bees will go up into the sugar board, take what they need, and ferry the food down to the queen and the brood nest. This recipe may be my bees lifesaver. So the next year I made it into a winter feeding board using 1″x1″ scrap wood. I sometimes get confused by the various different feeding methods (i.e. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with the options for winter feeding, so updates on your impressions would be very appreciated! I have a small colony, an August swarm…she’s a good queen and I concluded the bees were so few they wouldn’t have added much to my other two strong hives, so I decided to try and keep them going. The problem is the unusually warm days we have been getting in the winter. Actually, they did really well and bounded into spring with no problem. Update! I put the boards on around Christmas (usually) and pollen at that time is usually appropriate. Im following the Barnyard Bee’s recipe for the concentrate: 4 tsp Tea Tree Oil, 4 tsp Wintergreen Oil, and 2 tsp Spearmint oil very well mixed into a quart of 1:1 or 2:1 syrup…. 1. * No need to connect to your online-banking (but you can import your historical data from CSV though) HoneyMoney increases your awareness about your money habits. Thanks for your post on no-cook-candy-board. I did not fasten them to the wooden feeder frame as the packed & hardened sugar held them in place while carefully carrying them and placing them on the hives. So, this may be a good time to talk with your honey about moving some money into bank accounts for peace of mind; that topic was one dinner discussion Cliff and I had during a recent money date. You buy sugar, add water, then cook to drive out the water. This product belongs in the failed product extension bin and should be removed for sale. I have been scowering all sorts of books publications and the net for ideas on how to combine a cedar blanket with a candy board. Also, I read in the comments: “One thing I did find is don’t place them on a weak hive that is low on food too early, it will start a robbing frenzy, so I wait until the cold settles in for the season (Northern Ohio).” I think I made that mistake. If the pollen is mixed uniformly into the candy, the bees are more or less compelled to eat it even if they don’t want to. Thank you in advance for reading my comment. You need to put it directly above the winter cluster. This is my first year, just starting. 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