Maintenance feed
Ensure essential energy reserves for your colonies, particularly during winter or extended nectar shortages.
Keep Your Bees Healthy with Maintenance Feed

Maintenance feed
Maintenance feeding plays a crucial role in beekeeping management, ensuring colonies always have sufficient energy reserves during prolonged periods without nectar flow, particularly winter or harsh weather conditions. This type of feeding generally uses solid foods (fondant, candy, or sugar paste), which bees slowly consume, preventing nutritional stress when they cannot forage naturally.
In this category, you'll find specialized products like Apifonda, BeeFonda Extra, Ambrosia, or pastes enriched with vitamins or thymol, offering easily assimilable sugars while strengthening colony health and preventing issues like intestinal diseases or fungal infections.
A practical advantage is placing these foods directly over the central frames, allowing bees easy access without disrupting their winter cluster, thus maintaining stable internal temperatures. Adopting this nutritional strategy significantly reduces winter losses, maintains robust colonies year-round, and ultimately enhances your apiary's productivity and profitability.