The Beekeepers Year

The following information gives you details of what the bees are doing month by month, what you as the beekeeper need to do to keep them happy and approximately how long you need to spend on managing the hive each month.

January

The queen, surrounded by thousands of workers will be in a rugby-football shaped cluster in the hive. There is little activity except on a warm day when workers take the opportunity for making defecation flights. There will be no drones present, but some worker brood will be raised.