Beekeeping Hive Companion

The Bad News Winter is always a challenging and uncertain time of year for beekeeping. Most of the year, we are busy monitoring emerging activity in early spring, inspecting hives to track resources and laying patterns, shuffling frames to control swarming, or preparing for the upcoming winter. There is usually plenty to do. Winter flips the script. In this season, opening a hive can sometimes spell certain doom, and you must rely on careful fall preparation and your own expe