September HCBA meeting - Getting ready for Winter with Dick LaForge

Here is a link to the presentation: drive.google.c...
Few technical difficulties but the information is solid!!
Every beekeepers needs to get their hives ready for winter so your bees can ramp up in the spring. In this presentation we will cover:
- reducing hive size after honey harvest
- checking queen performance, combining weak hives
- checking food stores, feeding if necessary
- how to get late splits and nucs through the winter
- mite checking and treatments for Fall (briefly)
- how to avoid (now) or deal with (later) the 4 winter problems: mite collapse, starvation, queen failure, and poor locations
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