The beekeeping year, month by month, in both hemispheres.
A colony's winter is mostly decided before winter starts. Eight jobs in the order they fall, from the late-summer varroa treatment and the queen check to stores, entrances, mouse guards, damp and wind, and the notes that tell you which hives to check first in a cold snap.
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The first look inside after winter is the inspection most likely to do harm: too early, too long, every frame pulled. When it is warm enough, what to check from outside first, the five questions the first visit has to answer, what to do about each answer, and how it sets up swarm season.
Read the post »A month-by-month beekeeping calendar for temperate climates, with the southern-hemisphere month alongside each northern one: when to inspect, when swarm season starts, when to add supers, when to count and treat for varroa, when to harvest and when to feed.
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