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What are people doing this time of year in their apiaries?

  • 11-12-2016 9:27am
    #1
    Igotadose
    Registered Users Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭


    I'm getting a part of the yard ready for installation of my first hive in the spring. Have the area cleaned up, planted willows and putting up a wind block made of rocks from a neighbors yard.

    What do people do this time of year? The local bee club is organizing a club-wide visit to hives to use an oxalic acid sterilizer, I hope to at least travel along and see how members keep their bees. This is in West Kerry, where the weather's been all over the place - snow and frost a week ago, 10-15 degrees during the day the last few, rain, wind, the usual.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    DK man
    Registered Users Posts: 456 ✭✭DK man


    Not too much. Keep an eye that they don't blow over or knocked down by livestock

    Keep an eye for food at Christmas time - will also treat for varroa / oxalic acid

    Sell the rest of my honey - make candles and relax

    Beekeeping is very much a spring summer activity when it can get busy...

    Best of luck next year


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