12 Pack Pine Tree Farms Insect Suet Cakes 12 oz. 1470 Made in USA

I ordered the Insect Suet Cakes at $43 and received Never Melt Suet Cakes ($38 or less). Big difference! I don’t know whether this is a seller problem or an Amazon problem.Pine Tree Farms insect suet doesn’t have the fruit bits, which birds don’t care about, and the insect cakes are attractive to all the woodpeckers and wintering insect-eaters like wrens. I do think these are the best suet, if you can get them!

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Pine Tree Farms Insect Suet Cakes.Not totally a good or bad product review, but maybe some things that need to be updated...I have been buying the suet cakes a few years and the wood peckers and flickers do love them. I have had a few issues that others have mentioned like ordering the Insect cake and getting Never Melt (only happened once and the birds still ate it) and figuring out the best way to open the package, which I did.I liked that it had the meal worms and crickets which was the reson I started buying the product.Last box of 12 I got I noticed that the packaging wasn't as good. They all are open on one side but it doesn't seem to have hurt the product and makes it easier to get a knife in and slit open 3 sides to make a flap. Then I looked at the label and no were does it any longer list mealworms and crickets. Listed ingredients are: Rendered Beef Suet, Black Soldier Fly Larvae, Ground Peanuts, Finely Cracked Corn.Looking up Black Soldier Fly gives an interesting read in Wikipedia. Nothing bad. Then I noticed the label no longer states Manufactured by Pine Tree Farms, Interlaken NY. It now says Manufactured By Lebanon Seaboard Corporation, Interlaken NY.So I searched on Pine Tree Farms bought by Lebanon Seaboard Corporation and I found the growth history webpage for LSC and indeed thet did buy Pine Tree in 2022. As they have bought up many things in their history. None of this is good or bad ( hopefully the Pine tree people got good money for their buisness) But it brings up the whole thing about:1) The Amazon page is now inaccurate for at least 2 years and should be updated, which I think is the companies responsibility to do that (and customers like me when we come across them) and2) I started buying the product for mealworms and crickets and the page still lists that (I did notify Amazon about this) and was sent Black Soldier Fly instead, basically the product was a bait and switch on me.Do I think any of this was deliberate, NO. Am I still happy with the product... yes, sorta not. I feel tricked and scammed a little but I'll get over it. Will I continue to buy the product, probably. At least until I can find a different product with the ingredients and format I want, which maybe never.I will note that the seller listed for the product on the page I am looking at is Not LSC or Pine Tree, but a pet store. So.... were does Amazon get the pictures and the general info they use for a commercial product that is sold by multiple people? Does each seller provide their own version if they want to? Or is there a location for comercial products that Amazon makes a request against and could do so periodically for updates. Or is it they use the info provided by the first seller to populate for all sellers of that product?Any spelling or grammar errors are mine and you can't use them.

I put several of these suet cakes out, and my Hairy, Red Bellied, and Downy Woodpeckers love them. Many small birds like them also. I was really hoping to attract Bluebirds but none so far. I do know there was a Pileated Woodpecker living near-by but it has not dropped in for dinner yet. Maybe soon? I believe different mixes of birds in different areas have their favorite seed mixes. I am in central Virginia.

Birds love this thing. The suet cakes are gone before I know it. I get all kinds of birds eager to take a bite of it. Great way to provide them some protien

The actual suet cakes are in plastic trays which is common enough. However, where most manufacturers using this style of package seal the trays by gluing a plastic sheet to the top of the tray, these have that plastic sheet glued only half-way around. This makes them easy to open because they're already open before you get them.I've ordered this product twice (I forgot about that problem) and both 12-packs had the same issue. These suet cakes should not be stored outdoors. If you leave your windows open at home, don't store them indoors either except inside a sealed cabinet or refrigerator. It's probably not an issue during winter.

Our woodpeckers, chickadees and nuthatches all love this suit. It is less expensive than what I used to feed and the quality is as good. The one thing I would suggest is that they ship in a slightly bigger box. Some of the individual packages arrive broken because of the way the case is packed. Update November 2019: The most recent case I received was shipped in a better box and all cakes arrived intact.

This is not the regular Pinetree Farms insect suet. This is the Never Melt insect suet which contains more fillers to keep it from melting. Suet is the 3rd ingredient after peanuts and corn. The regular one lists suet first.