What are the Bees up to this month
Bee Activity
The main honey flow ends in early August. Bees will be actively looking for nectar which will be hard to find. Buckwheat will begin to bllom and goldenrod will begin toward the end of the month. So the bees will be very protective of the honey they produced the last several weeks.
The bees will start defending their hive more as yellow jackets and hornets try to rob the hives of their honey
The queens activity
What the beekeepers are doing
What the beekeepers are doing
Egg laying will start to slow down in August as we start to lose daylight.
What the beekeepers are doing
What the beekeepers are doing
What the beekeepers are doing
August is a busy month. We start by treating our colonies for mites twice this month. We also begin to harvest the honey by taking it from the hives. We will begin extracting the honey which will take a couple of weeks.
