Things to Do In 4 Different Bee Seasons

A beekeeper or apiarist has different jobs in each season. During winter, there's not a great deal to do with the hives if you already did all of the correct things in late summer and fall. But you still need to keep your sight on mites. Count for mites in sticky-board for 3 days and treat them when required and take away the chemical strip after 6 weeks. In the winter, you can decide the amount of hives you would want for the next year and the amount of bees to make a tough colony.

In spring, food stores must be checked each week. The brood should always be kept in the bottom by reversing the supers each fortnight. Add a 3rd super when the population starts to grow again. Avoid swarming by changing the queen with a younger one.

During summer, the honey should be extracted as speedily as possible before hive beetles ruin them. But leave enough honey for the month of July and Aug when the nectar is few. If you spot Varroa mites, you need to treat them at once so as to maintain a healthy colony for a rather more fall honey flow. So as to be prepared for the autumn season, you have to begin getting ready frames and super.

It is advocated to have ten or even more frames of bees during fall. Half full frames are mixed with other hives. In early fall, there should be lots of food stores and three to four frames is good. Feed the queen with syrup if there’s not too much egg-laying by mid September. In preparation for winter, the supers should be prepared.

It is important for a beekeeper to be conscious of the seasonal cycles of beekeeping. The activity of honeybees differs each season. Seasonal change in weather pattern affects the ripening of plants and nectar flow. Let us take another look at the honeybees ‘ activities during the 4 seasons.

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