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🍯 Fondant & Candy Board Feeding Lab

Why fondant is the standard cold-weather feed for honeybees, plus a basic method for making it at home.

Entomology & Insect Behaviour3DModerate60 FPS❄️ Ice & Cold

A cutaway winter hive compares a solid fondant block against liquid syrup as the outside temperature falls, showing why fondant remains workable, and edible, when syrup freezes solid.

🔬 What It Demonstrates

Fondant needs no evaporation and stays reachable well below freezing, while syrup requires warmth to process and turns to ice once it passes its freezing point, cutting the cluster off from its feed.

🎮 How to Use

Drop the outside temperature, switch between fondant and the two syrup strengths, and watch the cluster tighten, foraging bees stop reaching the feed, and the block level slowly drop when it's accessible.

💡 Did You Know?

Fondant's sugar concentration (about 78–80%) is close to what capped honey stores already hold, which is why bees can eat it straight away with none of the risky moisture load that raw syrup carries.

⚙ Under the hood

A 3D cutaway winter hive where an instanced bee cluster tightens with falling temperature while a candy-board feed block or syrup tray is drawn down, freezes, or stays workable depending on feed type and cold.

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