Tuesday, September 13, 2011

What you can Do In four Different Bee Seasons

By Larry T.


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 counseled to have 10 or maybe more frames of bees during fall. Half full frames are combined with other hives. In early fall, there should be masses of food stores and 3 to 4 frames is good. Feed the queen with syrup if there's not that much egg-laying by mid Sep. In preparation for winter, the supers should be prepared.

It is very important for a beekeeper to be aware of the seasonal cycles of beekeeping. The activity of honeybees differs each season. Seasonal change in weather pattern is affecting the flourishing of plants and nectar flow. Let us take a better look at the honeybees ' activities in the four seasons.




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