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Preparing apiary, colonies, and hives for winter
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Winter Colony Prep Workshop
Date and Time: Thursday, September 11, 2025, 7:00 P.M. via Zoom
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- Evaluating food stores to ensure sufficient winter reserves.
- Selecting the best hive configuration for winter, including decisions on honey super removal and retention.
- Consolidating frames and equalizing resources between colonies.
- Understanding hive weighing: procedures, safety tips, and target weights for various configurations.
- Feeding for rapid weight gain if they are short on stores with a focus on internal top feeders and can/jar feeders – when to begin and when to finish.
- Preventing robbing.
- Winterization techniques: wraps, insulation, mouse guards, and entrance reducers and effects on winter colony survival.
- Setting up windbreaks, including general specifications and types to avoid.
- Reviewing late-season mite treatment options, their effectiveness, and situational considerations.
- Conducting winter inspections: purpose, timing, and methods.
- Mid-winter feeding: solid foods, candy boards, and Mountain Camp emergency feeding.
- Updates on electric fencing recommendations.
Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss any concerns or challenges they have faced with their own colonies.
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