Episode 325: Active Bees, Late Winter Starvation?

In this week's Podcast: It’s incredible to think that today, the 25th October 2024, the local temperature is hitting 19° Celsius, it all seems lovely right now but what are the implications for our honeybees as we head through the Winter, listen in for my thoughts.

Hi, I’m Stewart Spinks and welcome to Episode 325 of my podcast, Beekeeping Short and Sweet.

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[claudenutt]

I enjoy your Podcast and learn from them. As I grow older, now aged 83, I have tried and failed to downsize. I too am a proponent of setting goals, so year after year, I would set a goal of having 20 hives, and year after year I would have between 30 and 40 hives. The increase was due largely to splitting to mitigate swarming. I also caught my own swarms. I found that I could not get reliably below 25 to 30 hives. So, I made a new plan and made a difficult decision to give up one of my apiaries and the resident bees. I hope you have better success at downsizing and have a speedy recovery.

[ES-bogy]

All the best Stewart for your hospital procedure. Fingers crossed you will sail through it and be up and about in no time
Best wishes

[tonyfox]

At what stage would you place fondant under the top cover directly on too of frames. And would you remove all the plastic bag or just increase the hole size.