Apimix 67 1kg individual bag

01 · WHAT IT IS AND WHEN TO GIVE IT

Dense, ready syrup with nothing to prepare

It is an invert sugar syrup with fructose, stabilised at 66 °Brix, appreciably denser than a home-made 1:1. That matters for a practical reason: the more water a syrup carries, the more the colony has to evaporate before storing it, and the bees pay for that work. Its natural place is the moments when energy is needed now — a newly hived swarm that is not yet foraging, an autumn top-up to complete stores, a spring start when the field is not yet giving. And coming in a single bag, you take exactly what you need to the apiary: one bag per hive, no buckets, no drums.

02 · HOW TO OPEN IT

Small holes on top: that is what stops them drowning

This is where it is all decided, and where most people get it wrong the first time. Lay the bag closed, lid facing down, on the frame top bars or the crown board, without blocking the bees’ passage, and once it is in place make 8 to 12 small holes with a sharp point on the upper face, as the manufacturer indicates. The bees suck through those holes and the syrup only comes out as fast as they take it: no open sheet of liquid ever forms, so there is nowhere to drown. Opening the bag wide is the mistake: it spills over the frames, the colony gets daubed and yes, they drown.

03 · WHAT IS IN IT

Fructose, dextrose and one third sucrose

The declared composition is 40 ± 2 % fructose, 30 ± 2 % dextrose and 30 ± 2 % sucrose on dry matter. That balance has a consequence you notice in the apiary: the high fructose share delays crystallisation, so the bag takes the cold without turning into a block, which is what ruins a syrup put on in October. The manufacturer also declares HMF under 20 ppm and enriches it with six B vitamins and 18 amino acids, in milligrams per kilo: it is not a protein source. The 66 °Brix give it a viscosity that flows through the holes without dumping.

04 · BEFORE YOU BUY

This is a single 1 kg bag: if you are feeding several hives, count one per hive per feed. And the rule that has nothing to do with the product: do not feed during a commercial flow or with supers on for harvest, because the syrup ends up stored and alters the honey. Keep the bags closed, dry and out of the sun; the plastic is thin and punctures easily, so do not stack anything on them in the boot.

In Apimix 67, the number is its density: 66.5 % dry matter, already a 2:1. There is also Apimix 75, a 3:1 for stores, but only in an IBC or by tanker.