![]() ![]() That also means you need to assemble a total of at least 80 – 100 frames. ![]() If you wanted to go from 2 hives to 4 hives, and you are using 10-frame Langstroth hive equipment… that means you have to purchase, assemble and paint 2 bottom boards, 2 tops, 4 brood chambers and 4 – 6 additional honey supers (let’s be optimistic while we are at it). ![]() Think about it by doing a bit of algebra. With honey bees, how much honey that is generated, and how healthy those bees are throughout the year, boils down to how well they start off that year.Īre your frames overdue for repair and cleanup? Much like a pregnancy, that baby is coming! The baby will not wait, and your honey bees will not wait. It is really that simple (deceptively simple). But that is what makes it so powerful a message. His advice “ You’ve got to keep ahead of your bees!” sounds simple and sounds like it applies to just about anything if you take out the bit about honey bees. So, what should you be doing now, but aren’t? The best advice we have ever received came from an ol’ timer beekeeper (Bill Waddell of My Daddy’s Honey). We are all affected by the change of seasons, but we all have different triggers for what is important to us. So, lazy beekeeper, you are in good company.įirst of all, you may notice that the beekeeping year doesn’t line up with how the typical civilian separates the seasons. ![]() The Beekeeping Year for the Piedmont of NC. ![]()
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