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Second Season
Kim FlottumBee Culture Magazine
Second Season Get them through winter
Healthy With Enough To Eat
Feeding For What?
Swarming
Honey Flow
Another Honey Flow
Take care of the bees that take care of the bees that go into winter begins in summer
Harvesting, once, twice….more
Fall Prep
Winter Again
Late FallFEEDING…If your bees starve, it’s your fault
SimpleWindbreaks Really Help
Only Partially Close
Screened Bottom Boards
T h e B i g g e r T h e R o c k T h e
B e t t e r. B u t W h y N o t
S i m p l y P u t I n Tw o S c r e w s ?
For Raised Hive Stands Make Sure There’s Some Dead Air Space Below If You Use Screened Bottom Boards
The Kinds Of Bees Make A Difference…There's The Kinds You Know…
Italian RussianCarniolanAnd Survivors, and Locals and Mutts and Hybrids…
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Next To Starvation and Varroa, The Next Biggest Killer Is Poor Ventilation
Winter The The Good
Not Too Bad
Thermal Imaging…
Could Be Ugly, but check the other side…
EMERGENCY!!!Early Exam
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BuildUP 1
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You are looking for That Balance, That Ratio of Eggs, Open and Sealed Brood
Fixing IPM includes First, Resistant Bees, Then Management, and finally
Soft chemicals like Essential Oilsand organic acids
What
will they eat?
Check your location for season-long food sources…Early SpringLate SpringSummerLater SummerFall
EARLY SPRING
Swarming
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Be Ready For The FlowThe Best Way To Take Care Of Bees Is The Worst Way To Make Honey
Here’s The Rule… THE ONLY RULE for Next Season…
Take Care Of The Bees…That Take Care Of The
Bees…That Go Into Winter.
If Your Grandparents Can’t Take Care Of Your Parents, Your Parents Can’t Take Care Of you…and You Don’t Have A Chance…
And Varroa is the killer….fix this problem, or call it a day…
Late Summer or Fall Flow?
Harvesting…how much?
Apilife-Var
Apigard
Formic
HopGuard
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It is not acceptable, or legal, to let your pets die, your farm animals die, your hobby animals (chickens, peacocks and the like) die of starvation…
Why is it acceptable to let a colony of bees die?
Death is not an acceptable choice…
Solve Problems Before They Become Problems
Bees Don’t Store Protein In The Fall…They Only Eat It
FEEDING…If your bees starve, it’s your fault
GOOD NOT SO GOOD
Frames In The Middle of the cluster Need Honey, Pollen (or stored protein), Brood In
All Stages, and ESPECIALLY Open Space. Honey and pollen, especially pollen,
should be above the brood nest in the fall when you close it up.
Not too much brood,Room for honey and bees
Way too much brood, not nearly enough honey
A dead colony. It ran out of food
Winter
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Thank You