Butler Cage

[Liam C Ryan]

Hi. What can I use to seal the entrance in a Butler cage besides fondant (candy).
Liam C

 

[VEG]

marshmallow, paper

 

[For want of a better word]

marshmallow, paper

pink or white??

 

[Andy Duff]

Tissue paper ball/wad but I believe in Wigan they use a meat pie.

 

[beebreeder]

Are you talking for release of the queen or to keep her in the cage, as above for release or if you want her kept in until her new bees get used to her, wrap the end with the fondant in with silver foil and put a elastic band around the foil

 

[Outlander]

I have found 9 out 10 times that they, the queen that is prefers the pink marshmallow.

 

[For want of a better word]

I have found 9 out 10 times that they, the queen that is prefers the pink marshmallow.

toasted or dusted lightly with icing sugar??

 

[Alabamaeee]

Latte and floating in top

 

[Liam C Ryan]

l want to replace a queen who is a very slow layer with a good queen l have in a nuc

 

[itma]

Hi. What can I use to seal the entrance in a Butler cage besides fondant (candy).

Next time you are in the supermarket, get yourself some 'ready-to-roll' icing from the 'home baking' zone.
Its fondant.
A couple of quid for a packet. Not a lot to pay, but a touch pricey for what it is. However its a dead easy, accessible, solution to an immediate need for a small quantity.
Wrap up what is left over in a poly bag, seal it and put it with your beekeeping stuff. It'll keep for ages.
My concerns about additives were waved away by a man who has a lot more experience of bee breeding than most, Terry Clare of BIBBA. If he is happy to use it in queen rearing, I'm sure no harm is likely.

 

[jackbee]

pink or white??

pink of course - she's a laydee

 

[ratcatcher]

Next time you are in the supermarket, get yourself some 'ready-to-roll' icing from the 'home baking' zone.
Its fondant.
A couple of quid for a packet. Not a lot to pay, but a touch pricey for what it is. However its a dead easy, accessible, solution to an immediate need for a small quantity.
Wrap up what is left over in a poly bag, seal it and put it with your beekeeping stuff. It'll keep for ages.
My concerns about additives were waved away by a man who has a lot more experience of bee breeding than most, Terry Clare of BIBBA. If he is happy to use it in queen rearing, I'm sure no harm is likely.

I like this as I have 1/2 a pack of that suff left, but surely marshmallow is easier for bees to eat through, compaired to fondant that needs water added to it by bees?

 

[fiftyjon]

I like this as I have 1/2 a pack of that suff left, but surely marshmallow is easier for bees to eat through, compaired to fondant that needs water added to it by bees?

If the bees want to release the queen they will. I use fondant and sometimes it is hard, the queen is released in less than a day.
Using fondant will release the queen slower than newspaper.
Make sure the bees are not balling the cage and they are in desparate need of a queen then they will release her.

 

[Luminos]

Aren't marshmallows made from gelatin?

 

[victor meldrew]

Tissue paper ball/wad but I believe in Wigan they use a meat pie.

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