• Beekeeping

    Seasonal Management of Honey Bees

    For beekeepers, each season brings new tasks in regards to management of their beehives.  Depending on the season, honey bees have different needs. The exact timing of the season will vary depending on your location.  Some beekeepers like to divide their seasons up into periods instead.  Those periods are the dearth period, build up period, honey flow period, and harvesting period.  Either way, each season, or period of your hive, have different management methods to help your colony thrive year round.  Seasonal Management of Honey Bees Spring Spring can also be known as the build up period.  This is when plants are starting to open up and flower.  Spring is…