# Packing sugar into comb **URL:** \ **Category:** Beekeeping - Basics\ **Tags:** feeding-bees\ **Created:** [September 23, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498 "2021-09-23T01:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chau06](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/chau06/32/25515_2.png) [@chau06](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/chau06)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498/1 "2021-09-23T01:09:19Z")
Has anyone tried this? [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/e/f/efad805cfe63241672168590c05c6398594737a4.jpeg "filling drawn comb with moistened sugar for interior feeding") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwC8aEA3FOw) Any feedback? Seems like a good way to get a whole lot of sugar in. Do the bees eat it and store it as honey somewhere else like with syrup or do they leave it be like it was capped honey? ---
**Author:** ![Eva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@Eva](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Eva)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498/2 "2021-09-23T17:49:15Z")
@Doug1 did I see you do something like that? ---
**Author:** ![Dawn\_SD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dawn_sd/32/15954_2.png) [@Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498/3 "2021-09-23T18:13:24Z")
I think he puts sugar syrup into empty stickies, but I haven’t seen him post about granulated sugar or pollen 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Doug1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/doug1/32/12603_2.png) [@Doug1](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Doug1)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498/4 "2021-09-23T20:42:32Z")
Interesting you ask that [Eva](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498/2)…and [Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD) is correct in that I have only sprayed sugar syrup into the frames. I think there is a good chance of the bees…in working the cells filled with sugar granules… knocking some down into the hive and wasting the sugar. If you could leave the frames, which have been filled with sugar, outside for a length of time to absorb ambient moisture and fuse the sugar granules, there may be less wastage. Also in climates like mine, there isn’t enough available moisture (absolute humidity) for the bees to work it during winter unless moisture is added to their environment…which I’m doing. It may work better in a more humid climate. So I’ll post some photos the next few weeks of bees working dry sugar I intend to feed them…if I meet with success. ---
**Author:** ![chau06](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/chau06/32/25515_2.png) [@chau06](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/chau06)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498/5 "2021-09-23T23:16:22Z")
> [@Doug1](#): > > for a length of time to absorb ambient moisture and fuse the sugar granules I think in this video the sugar is already moistened - I assume it would harden after being left out… ---
**Author:** ![Dawn\_SD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dawn_sd/32/15954_2.png) [@Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498/6 "2021-09-23T23:26:03Z")
> [@chau06](#): > > I assume it would harden after being left out… Never assume, do the experiment and then tell us the results! Please??? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chau06](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/chau06/32/25515_2.png) [@chau06](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/chau06)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498/7 "2021-09-24T01:25:34Z")
In the video she puts it in a dehydrator - I guess what I am assuming is that leaving it in a dry room will work, just slower… ---
**Author:** ![JeffH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/jeffh/32/7192_2.png) [@JeffH](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/JeffH)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/packing-sugar-into-comb/31498/8 "2021-09-24T02:38:17Z")
It’s also worth noting that the moisture came from cider vinegar.