Winter and bees.
There is such a term as seasonal work, when human activity involves something like rest during a certain period of time.
As a rule, this can be called rest when, before that, you have prepared well for the time when you will have to rest, but before that you worked without bending your back.
Beekeeping, to some extent, can be attributed to seasonal work, but only in terms of the time of fur collection.
In fact, beekeepers work hard in winter, make, or look for new and used but good quality frames for hives on sale, both frames for waxing and frames with dry material, if they do not have enough of their own frames with dry material.
In this off-season, new store hive bodies are made and the hives are supervised to avoid the death of families, but without opening the hives, so as not to cool them.
There are many different opinions of experienced beekeepers on how to preserve bee colonies during the winter.
Some leave the hives outside and cover them with snow, some buy country houses, or rent them as a storage place for hives during the winter.
The goal is the same for everyone, to enter the spring with the maximum number of bees in the families.
After all, the larger the bee family, the greater the chances of success in the spring, and anything can happen, when bees die due to lack of food, or die due to stomach upset due to poor quality food, and diarrhea in bees is something that is not easy to deal with.
Storing hives indoors in winter has its pros and cons.
At higher temperatures inside the house, bees consume less food, but there is a possibility of mice invading the hives, they love to gnaw wooden cases and settle in the midst of a warm bee family.
Many beekeepers are satisfied with keeping their hives outside, but in the street, in a winter like this year, there will be sharp temperature changes and, like many plants that began to sprout in the winter, bees may mistakenly begin to fly out of the hive, but there will be no honey plants around and this is an unnecessary waste of food inside the hive.
It is difficult to say and decide for yourself how exactly you should wait for spring as a beekeeper.
But, there is no single recipe and you need to be prepared for any outcome of events.
Coming out of winter in beekeeping is similar to what gardeners do, who decide how to trim tree branches, which branch should be cut, and which one should be put.
Some bee families should be divided into two, and some bee families should be built up.
Only those beekeepers who are rightly called bee poachers, or choose sharper words, do not have such concerns.
Such "pseudo-beekeepers" do not preserve bee colonies after the honey collection season, they take away all the honey and let the bee colonies die, and in the spring they do not buy bee colonies again from other beekeepers, a harsh, unworthy of respect method of beekeeping.
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When I visited dense forests, I did not see ideal conditions for bees there, but many beekeepers harvest beekeeping products in such places.
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