Filling a frame feeder with sugar?

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Might be a silly question but does anyone just fill a frame feeder with dry sugar and not a sugar syrup?
If you have done it does it work ok? I have used sugar syrup in the past in a frame feeder and it works well just have
to use popsicle stick to stop the bees from drowning so i guess straight up sugar would be better?

I would like to hear peoples opinions and thoughts/ideas with this.

regards
ben

[Finski]

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Melbourne? Austaralia or Florida ooor?

If your day temps are over 10C, there is no reason to feed dry sugar of use internal feeder.

Pouring 1:2 syrup into combs is a quick way.

If you feed 5-10 kg sugar, use upper feeder then.

[Kathyp]

dry sugar is an emergency measure.  it's not for regular feeding.  if you are putting dry in "just in case" after you are sure they have good stores for winter, the frame feeder should work fine.

[rbinhood]

I have used the few frame feeders that I have aquired over time feeding dry sugar with no problems.

[Finski]

I have used the few frame feeders that I have aquired over time feeding dry sugar with no problems.

of course but...
If you give a kilo sugar, bees carry water one kilo from outdoors.

When one bee can carry 70 mg load,  the hive needs to make 14 285 trip to get 1 litre water.

[Michael Bush]

I have.  IT works better if you wet it afterwards... even better if you put syrup in a spray bottle and spray it into the comb...