The quality of nutrition is one of the important aspects of beekeeping, therefore, experienced specialists use Candi feeding as an additional food for bees, which will be discussed in this article. Let's take a closer look at how to make Candi.
What it is?
First, let's look at what Candi is. At its core Candi is a dough consisting of sugar, honey and water.. It can take a different form, have a different consistency. Top dressing is used mainly in the winter, in the rest of the period it is an additional source of food, in particular, for families in the nucleus during fertilization of queens.
For feeding the bees also use honey feed.
Important! Feeding the bees with this dressing does not increase the number of new individuals among the toilers.
How to cook?
Preparing dressing for bees is a labor-intensive matter, since the volume of ingredients is large enough, so it is worth mixing all the ingredients with the help of kitchen appliances. Let us further consider the recipe for making Candy for bees.
This video presents the cooking process.
Required Ingredients
The basis for candi (bee food) is flour - sift it to get a clean product. First of all, you need to prepare the sugar, turning it into powder, and then pass through a sieve. This is a prerequisite, otherwise your bait will be extremely solid form.
Honey should be taken exclusively fresh, which did not have time to crystallize. If there is none, then you should skip it through a water bath (it should be soft). The addition of water forms the whole mass, since it is possible to adjust the shape - soft, sticky or hard.
In beekeeping, a wax refinery, a honey extractor, a beehive (multi-body, alpine or Dadan's beehive) which can be made with your own hands will be useful.
Step-by-step recipe with photos
The following photos demonstrate how to prepare gradually, stage by stage, candi for bees.
- Fall asleep in a pot or container through a sieve of flour.
- Then heat the honey, stir it in a separate plate.
- After that, pour the heated honey into a container of flour.
Did you know? If you cook Candi in the fall, it will last until spring.
- Add the icing sugar on top.
Did you know? In Candi, you can add special drugs that prevent insect disease.
- Mix thoroughly until it feels like the friability of the flour has disappeared and a viscous mixture has appeared.
Different types of honey differ in their properties. Learn in detail about the properties of lime, acacia, sweet clover, buckwheat, acacia, chestnut, phacelia, espartse, coriander, hawthorn and chernoklenovogo honey.
- From the mixture we make dense lumps weighing about 1 kg.
How to give candies to bees
It is very simple to give food to bees - it is necessary to place a top dressing on the framework. Namely: the cooked pieces are wrapped in a film or paper (food or writing), after which a hole is opened in the film for access (approximately one fourth).
Next, the open part should be put directly on the grid, which is necessary so that the dressing does not fall between the frames. Now open the hive, place the trellis over the bees, cover it with a canvas, thus this trellis will be completely closed from above and the insects will have direct access to food.
Learn also about what bee packs are, how to stop the swarming of bees, the functions of bee-maids and drones, the ways of hatching bees.
If there is no place for food in the hive, then top dressing can be applied by preparing it with plates. The feeding procedure should not be done too often, because it bothers insects and thus interferes with their vital activity. Consider also the temperature at which the feed is fed - it is not recommended to do it in hard frosts, but in omshanik this is done at any time. 
Important! When buying a top dressing, pay attention to its hardness - too hard, it can harm the bee colonies, as they will not be able to process it.Breeding bees is not such a difficult task, as it seems at first glance, but it will require diligence and attention to food, in particular. Have a fruitful season!
