bee candy

noun

A manufactured food for bees, used by bee-keepers

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Meanings

nounbee candy (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA manufactured food for bees, used by bee-keepers

    The hive was provisioned with bee candy, water, 2 frames of honey, and 1 frame of pollen mixed with dextrose.

    1990, Gordon L. Shaw, James L. McGaugh, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, page 428
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    Connected with one corner of the cage is a small tube several inches in length which in caging a queen for introduction, is filled with bee candy.

    1909, Ralph Benton, A Comprehensive System for the Queen Breeder, page 126

    This is bee-candy," he explained, "winter food for the hives. We make a lot of it and send it all over the country. But it's ticklish work.

    a. 1921 [3rd ed.], Tickner Edwardes, The Bee-Master of Warrilow [Kessinger reprint](2006), page 61
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