Kandy for bees: a recipe for cooking. Feeding of bees in winter: lessons of beekeeping

Delicious treat is honey, but not just a treat. It is an excellent remedy. To get it, you need to work and bees, and people. Who does not deal with beekeeping, it seems that everything is simple and easy. But this is not so, only a knowledgeable person in this matter knows that a small toiler must be fed during the wintering period. One of the most frequently used kinds of feeding is candy for bees, the recipe for its preparation will be given just below.

What is Candi?

So, we turn to the conversation about the most fertilizing. What is it? If you read books on beekeeping, then, most likely, you already know about it. And if not, then you will find out. Candy is a hard, carbohydrate top dressing for bees. It is prepared from:

• Honey;
• Of powdered sugar.

This is the first option.

The second option:

• Hydrolyzed cane sugar ;
• Powdered sugar with additives.

Kandy is used for feeding bees in the winter. It is put on nest frames in the form of flat cakes or on the bottom of the hive. Also, feeding can be found in uterine or transfer cells.

Most often, feeding for kandi bees is used for the spring or early-autumn period, it is at this time that it contributes to the growth of the bee family. Preparing a delicacy only on approved technologies. To maintain bees, certain medicinal preparations (beeswax) are added to the mixture . The product must be used strictly according to the instructions.

You can prepare candy for bees in several ways. We will talk about each of them separately.

Candy sweet: the first stage

• Take tinned tin or enamel dishes. Remember: do not use a container made of cast iron.
• One liter of water pours in and is heated to sixty degrees.
• Two kilos of sugar are poured in, and everything boils for twenty minutes. You can not interfere with the syrup, the foam is carefully removed.

Advice: all the bottom of the dishes should be heated by fire. Only in this case on the walls of the container does not form a sugar cake, which then will appear in a sweet. It is best to cook the mixture on the stove without opening the burners. If you have to cook on a primus or kerosene, then put an iron sheet on the fire.

The readiness of the syrup is checked as follows: the spoon drops into the hot mixture, and then for a second - under cold water. If after this procedure you can roll a dough ball, the syrup is ready. Otherwise you will have to boil it further.

Candy sweet: the second stage of cooking

The syrup is ready, you can proceed to the second part of the preparation.

1. Six hundred grams of liquid honey is added to the resulting mixture.
2. Everything boils for no more than three minutes.

Remember! With the addition of honey to the syrup boils intensify. If the dishes are not too deep, the mixture will pour over the edge. Delicacy for bees can not be digested, it can become hard, but fragile. You can correct the mistake by adding water and starting to boil again.

After the mixture is poured, it is poured into tin containers, it cools down there, and you stir it with a wooden spatula in one direction. Once the mixture has acquired the appearance of a white thick dough, it is placed in a wooden box or glass jar. Inside the walls of the container should be covered with a layer of wax. Cover the candy with a thick paper, also impregnated with wax.

Not everyone can correctly figure out whether the mixture is ready or not. To do this, you can use a thermometer. With the testimony on it one hundred and twelve degrees, you can pour honey. After this, bring the mixture to a temperature of one hundred and eighteen degrees and pour into a bowl for storage.

Fodder weight of Scholz

You can cook candy for bees, recipe using the following. Honey, prepared for the mixture, put in an enamel pot. As already mentioned above, aluminum can not be used. Preheat the product. Keep it on fire until all the crystals dissolve. You can not bring it to a boil, it can burn.

Then the prepared mixture cool and pour sugar into it. Mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon until its consistency is the same as bread dough. After this, you put the received delicacy on a board sprinkled with powdered sugar. Start kneading like a dough for a pie. Sugar powder powdered until the mixture is soft, but will not blur.

As you can see, this method of preparing candy does not require much knowledge and cost. A little time, desire - and in the winter your bees will not starve, then in the spring and summer they will work well.

Feeding mass Komarov

If you decide to cook candy for the bees for the winter, you will be offered another recipe.

• Take a large pot of water. The temperature of the liquid must be such that you can hold it in your hand.
• In the second container put honey.
• Put the second pan in the first one.
• Honey is constantly hampered by a wooden spatula. The water temperature should not be more than sixty five degrees.
• After all the crystals have dissolved, stirring, pour the powdered sugar into the mass.
• When the mass becomes thick, it starts to knead with your hands.
• To get a good candy for bees, the proportions of honey and sugar powder should be in this ratio: two and a half to one.

To prepare a delicacy for "hard workers" will require high-quality honey. It should be taken from healthy families. Dry powdered sugar should be without lumps and without crystals. Only in this case, fertilizing will bring benefit to insects, and not harm. Your bees will safely winter.

And now about the proportions

We prepare candy for bees. The recipe is provided in proportions. Agree that in this case it's easier to make a mixture. After all, do not "by sight" determine, enough of this or that ingredient.

To prepare a delicacy insects should take:

• 26% of liquid honey;
• 74% of powdered sugar;
• 0.3 milliliter of 70% acetic acid ;
• 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil per 1 kilogram of powdered sugar.

Sugar powder should be free of lumps. It will take so much so that you can make cakes of the size that you need.

Correctly cooked candy should not be too thick and should not stick to your hands. In order for the sugar in the mixture to be inverted, it will be necessary to spread the flat cakes over plastic bags and to keep them in a warm place. A little time will pass, and the prepared top dressing can be used not only in the winter, but, if necessary, in the summer.

Methods of feeding bees

Studying books on beekeeping, you can find out that there are many ways of feeding these insects. In each period - its delicacy.

• In spring it is best to give bees a gruel. It can be normal or yeast. This treat can revive the family after wintering.
• During the transition period, liquid syrup is used: sugar or honey syrup.
• At the onset of the hungry times as a feeding, bees are given a substitute, which in composition is similar to nectar. It has one, but very important effect - antinozematous. In order to make this nectar even more effective, you can add to it citric acid. For one liter of syrup - about four grams of this product.
• Need bees and protein supplementation. Most of all it is required in the spring. As it is used dry update. Pour it into empty cells using a spray gun and spray 30% sugar syrup.
• An excellent feeding for insects is albumin curd. It is prepared as follows: one kilogram of sugar dissolves in 800 grams of water. Two hundred grams of cottage cheese is rubbed into a small amount of syrup obtained, and then it is added to the norm.

We give top dressing

How to make candy for bees, you already know, now let's talk about how fertilizing is used.

Candi is given at any time of the year and in any weather. The main thing is to monitor the bee colonies. They themselves "will tell" whom to feed and when. The beekeeper must decide when this moment has come.

Kandy is put in a cellophane bag with holes. It is installed on the frame. You can give such a dressing even when there is honey in the hive.

Sugar syrup should be given in the evening. Thus, you will reduce the insects' harmful "walks". Sugar should be warm. The remains must be constantly checked. Remember: syrup can not replace bees with full nutrition. In the feeders should be: perga, honey, pollen.

Pergue bees are fed in the spring. After the honey is pumped out, the honeycombs with the remains of pergia are cut out and twisted through a meat grinder. To the mixture is added honey. Everything is stored in a glass jar. Before the distribution, a little water, honey is added to the composition and a cake is made, which is put on the frame.

Conclusion

Do I need to feed bees in winter? Kandy use for these purposes or other mixtures? These questions are constantly tormenting beekeepers. There is no unequivocal answer to them. Some believe that insects can not get out of hibernation without help.

It is best if you provide your "laborers" with feed in advance. Feeding should be used only when they do not have enough food.

Top-dressing is required in order to:

• Replenish stocks;
• Stimulate oviposition;
• Protect from disease.

Successful beekeeping!