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NSBK Blog

Beekeeping Year – January

1/1/2019

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Here’s what you should be doing this month:

  • Clean and prepare spare equipment (Supers, Nuc boxes, Replacement brood frames, Spare brood boxes, Queen excluders)
  • Plan your activities for the year (Increase, maximise honey crop, queen replacement, queen rearing, new techniques)
  • Attend all branch meetings
  • Read some beekeeping books
  • Consider taking some assessments (Basic, Husbandry, Modules esp. Mod 3)
  • Heft your hives
  • Watch for staining at entrance
  • Expect some dead bees by hive
  • Emergency feeding (candy, syrup, frame feeders)
  • Must have Open Mesh Floors; screens can be removed
  • No work on varroa control
(Reproduced from “The Beekeeping Year” by Ivor Davis on the ABKA website)
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