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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