Pine Tree Farms Insect Suet Cakes 12 oz. 1470 Made in USA (6)

We have been using these cakes for a year or so and always happy with them. The birds love them- especially the woodpeckers, chickadees and titmice. Last a long time too. A little pricey but well worth it.

I have at least 5 different suet cakes in my feeders and this one is always the first to be eaten. I live in Western WI.

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.

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I am in the Bay Area in Northern California using chunks of these cakes in my Bird Buddy suet ball holder. The first week they mostly ignored it, but once they found it, they have been devouring it ever since! I will definitely order more!

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.

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