Apipasta with vitamins - Pallet 1050kg

01 · WHAT IT IS

Energy, not protein — worth being clear about the difference

It is a sucrose fondant with invert sugar and glucose syrups: 90 % dry matter, nearly all of it sucrose, and under 0.5 % protein. It carries B vitamins and 18 free amino acids, but in milligrams per kilo: they round out the formula, they do not turn it into a protein feed. What it supplies is energy: if what is missing outside is pollen, this is not the product — that calls for a protein patty. Like any feed, it does not cure disease and does not replace varroa control.

02 · WHY THE SMALL CRYSTAL

15 µm on average is what makes them eat it

A crystal size averaging 15 µm is not a catalogue figure: it is the difference between a paste the bees lick up and a gritty one they abandon half done. And the 10 % moisture, with each crystal coated in a thin film of glucose syrup according to the maker, is what avoids the two classic failures of cheap fondant: a liquid layer forming on top in summer, and a block of stone in winter. Check the best-before date on the label of each batch.

03 · HOW TO PUT IT ON

The whole bag and a small cut — a big hole dries it out

No feeder needed: put the whole bag face down on the top bars, right over the cluster, with a small cut, and the bag itself holds the moisture in the paste while they work it. That is where the hardening that gets blamed on the product usually comes from: cutting a big hole leaves the paste open to the air, it dries on the surface and the bees walk away from it. If that has happened to you, try it with just a slit.

⚠ PRECAUTIONS

Do not feed during a flow or with honey supers on: sugar that goes up into the super ends up in the honey you are going to jar. Take out whatever is left before supering.

04 · BEFORE YOU BUY

The pallet is 70 boxes of 15 kg, 1,050 kg in all and 1,050 one-kilo bags. To size it: a colony gets through four to six bags over a three-month winter, so the pallet covers on the order of 200 colonies for a whole wintering. It ships as one consignment, which is where the difference against ordering loose boxes lies.