Greets All/Allen/Murray
 
Interesting to read about the fondant as a feed for bees.
 
Just a caution to anybody trying to make the stuff or buy it -
another thing to check for is the ingredients of the icing sugar
componenet.
 
Normal icing sugar is made by finely grinding sugar and mixing it
with starch so it remainds smooth and 'clumpless' as well as having
better holding properties when being made into icing.
 
Castor sugar is pure sugar and has no additives.
 
I know this as I am allergic to both maize and wheat hence cannot eat
icing sugar due to it's components that are bad for me.
 
I know from watching beekeepers that I know trying to feed their
hives with sausages of icing sugar and honey that it damages colonies
due to the starch component if they are rearing brood.
 
Hence checking with the icing sugar milling company would also be a
good step.
 
Keep well
 
Garth
 
Garth Cambray           Camdini Apiaries
15 Park Road
Grahamstown             Apis mellifera capensis
6139
South Africa
 
Time = Honey
 
If you are not living on the edge you are taking up too much space!!