Wintering
Wintering Bees in Cold Climates
Keeping bees is an agricultural endeavor, thus, success as a beekeeper depends on understanding the local environment. This guide was written for beekeepers whose bees overwinter in cold climate. To care for colonies with a prolonged winter confinement period, you must learn how to recognize and promptly deal with colony health and queen problems during the summer and fall, with an eye to ensuring that colonies enter winter dormancy in the best possible condition. This point cannot be overstated: Good fall management is critical to successful overwintering! Fall management begins prior to the end of the last nectar flow and falling temperatures that would preclude mite treatments and supplemental feeding.
| Wintering Bees (2016) |
Bees in the Cold
Some articles by Melinda Jean Stafford on bees in the cold and prepping for winter.
https://blog.mydbsupply.com/beekeeping-prep-for-winter/
https://blog.mydbsupply.com/bees-in-the-cold/
https://blog.mydbsupply.com/winter-bee-survival/
https://blog.mydbsupply.com/beekeeping-prep-for-winter/
https://blog.mydbsupply.com/bees-in-the-cold/
https://blog.mydbsupply.com/winter-bee-survival/
Candy Boards for Winter Bee Food
Our very own Melinda Jean Stafford dives into Candy Boards in her blog:
https://blog.mydbsupply.com/candy-boards-for-winter-bee-food/
https://blog.mydbsupply.com/candy-boards-for-winter-bee-food/
David Donnelly's Candy Board Recipe
Feeding in Winter
by Marc Von Huene
Winterization Guide |
Overwintering a Nucleus Colony |
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Here is a guidebook for winterizing your bees written by:
Eliese Watson at Apiaries and Bees for Communities in Alberta, Canada www.backyardbees.ca |
Oregon State University published a report on overwintering a nucleus colony:
https://catalog.extension.oregonstate.edu/sites/catalog/files/project/pdf/pnw682_2.pdf |
Cold Climates
Keeping bees is an agricultural endeavor, thus, success as a beekeeper depends on understanding the local environment. This guide was written for beekeepers whose bees overwinter in cold climate. To care for colonies with a prolonged winter confinement period, you must learn how to recognize and promptly deal with colony health and queen problems during the summer and fall, with an eye to ensuring that colonies enter winter dormancy in the best possible condition. This point cannot be overstated: Good fall management is critical to successful overwintering! Fall management begins prior to the end of the last nectar flow and falling temperatures that would preclude mite treatments and supplemental feeding.
https://pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/sites/pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/files/shared/documents/Wintering%20Bees%20in%20Cold%20Climates.compressed.pdf
https://pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/sites/pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/files/shared/documents/Wintering%20Bees%20in%20Cold%20Climates.compressed.pdf