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| The unusually warm winter here in Connecticut has enabled me to procrastinate in feeding the honeybees. Winter is beginning to set in so today I got to it! I pulled out the candy boards and got to work... |
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| I scooped out just enough for 15 pounds of sugar to make three candy boards. |
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| Then added 48 ounces of water to the big pot and brought it to a boil. |
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| This year I tacked this flexible card board material to the board to allow the "candy" to cling to it. |
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| Once the sugar and water came to the sugar stage after much beating, I poured it into the boards and took them outside to quickly cool. |
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| My friend Kisha and I have talked a lot about how to better winterize the bees and reduced moisture in the hive. We saw a man selling a system and he used pine shavings to help collect the moisture. |
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| We are both going about our theories in different ways. Mine is keeping my feeders on top of the hive, filling the feeders with shavings... |
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| then inverting the candy board on top of that. My theory hopes the bees go up between the feeder, eat the "candy" and stay free of moisture. I allowed a couple of venting spaces and am hoping for the best. As I was installing this I discovered that my weaker hive had already died so fingers crossed for the two plus Kisha's hive that we hope to bring through winter! |
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| So, tops are on, secured with heavy rocks, vented and fingers crossed until Spring, rest well girls! |
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