Bee Buzz-i-ness

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2018 brings some more cold weather before Spring. Please look in on your bees for a moment when the temperature is above 60℉. Make sure you've not robbed them of too much winter stores to get through til March. Make sure you have a solid bottom board or have blocked the screen bottom.  Refurbish your beetle traps, consider the mites (Oxalic Acid fog) and make sure they are protected from wind and water and write your findings down to refer to them in the Spring as you consider your hive loses and weak hives. Prepare for an economic bad year. Make sure there are no queen excluders on your hive.  Start preparing your bee boxes in storage for their Spring use, add fresh external paint, tightened those corners, clean the insides real good and get ready for Spring with this cool weather.

Altamaha Beekeepers Association (Lyons)