Building Beehive Candy Board

How to install package bees in a top bar hive. Prepare samples for bee disease diagnosis or pesticide analysis. As water evaporates from the sugar solution it condenses inside the inner cover.

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As far as the height of the candy board feeder it can vary from as little as 2 up to 4.

Building beehive candy board. Making sugar syrup from the candy board. When you build candy boards for feeding your bees the size you build will depend on the size beehives you have. This is the catch all post about building the rest of the langstroth hive components. How to install package bees in a langstroth hive.

How to make bee candy boards. Assemble a hive box. For each hive that you are building you need one bottom board one inter cover one feeder one entrance reducer and one outer cover. This video shows how to make a candy board for overwintering bees and we also discuss the many additional benefits of a candy board including absorbing condensation allowing moisture to escape.

For all sizes you are going to make it the exact same dimensions that your hive box is. During cold winter months feeding sugar water solutions can cause deathly moisture build up in your hive. This then showers down onto your bees and can kill them. Install the candy board.

For example i use 10 frame langstroth hives and measured accordingly. I want the feeder frame to sit right on top of the box frame for the bees to come and enjoy anytime they need it. Autopsy a dead hive. Candy boards are the answer.

I recommend a 3 tall feeder. I will once again be following the plans for a 8 frame langstorth beehive found here. First of all you ll need to measure the boards to fit the frames of your hives.