> Like dry sugar, use of bee candy is a bit of an emergency measure and an
> admission that the beekeeper took too much away or did not feed in time.
>

There is one circumstance when this may not be true, and that is in early
spring when they are brooding up and you get a long freeze. They will sit
over the brood and starve even though honey is literally an inch away- to
their side. If food is over them, like candy right on the top bars, they
will survive. It seldom happens, but it did to me. The colony was thriving
when I left and starved in a bit over a week when the weather shifted
abruptly cold and stayed there. Only lost one colony, as the others still
had honey over them.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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