Bee Season is here - Here's How You Prepare! {Southern Hemisphere}

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IT'S BEE SEASON!

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SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE TIPS

We're excited that something sensational starts soon: Spring! But that doesn't mean that you as a beekeeper should wait until September to get working on your bees! Here's why! To get more honey!

I share in a bee video about the Bee Season starting right now on my www.youtube.com/beewareonline and other bee videos all about beekeeping!

Catch bees, feed bees and do hive maintenance as soon as the cold front moves on and we get a warm spell of weather!

Watch the Bee Video for more inside tips:

Swarm attractant lure
Where to place your catch boxes
How to feed your bees to build colony brood now for spring readiness
and other inside bee tips...

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How You Can Benefit By Following The Steps In This Bee Video So Your Bees Are Ready For Spring and Get More Honey... Act Now!

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How to Prepare Your Bees For Spring To Get Best Honey Harvest

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August Forage for Your beekeeping!

It's a big month for beekeeping and bees!

There's a number of early-blooming crops in the southern hemisphere that our Apis Mellifera Scutellata and Capensis honey bees love to forage on!

Take advantage of these if you have just decided to start beekeeping to catch bees - we talk about this on one of our YouTube Videos - {Bee Season - ep.3}.

Crops to look out for RIGHT NOW:

Aloe Davyana - Indigenous power house N4/P4
Red Rover Gum - N3/P2
Lemon-scented Gum - N3/P2
Narrow-leaf Ironbark - N3/P1
River Peppermint - N2/P1
Yellow Gum - N3/P1
Tallow Wood - N1/P2 - Flowering in Cape now for building colonies
Grey Ironbark - N3/P0
Black Ironbark - N4/P0
Forest Red Gum - N4P4 (Liquid Gold on tap)
Doringbome - N2/P2
Wattles - N1/P2
Swarthaak/Sweet Thorn - N2/P2
Bush-Willows - N2/P2
Wild Pear - N1/P3 (good builder and brood stimulant)
Boekenhout - N3/P1
Match Poplar - N0/P3 (good source of propolis together with cottonwood)
Karee - N2/P3
Waterberry - N3/P1
Sisal - N3/P3 (colony booster and swarming crop)
Canola Rapeseed - N4/P4 (WC + SC)
Coriander - N3P2 (colony builder and honey tastes like aniseed)
Litchi - N3P2 (pollination improves fruit set and quality and lovely taste!)
Macadamia N2P1 (increased set of nuts per plume)
Mango - N2P1
Sainfoin N3P3 (slow granulating honey)
Avocado - N3P2 (dark honey and colony stays strong and 300% increase in fruit set)
Wild Pea - N3P2 (mild honey flavour)
Bitter Aloe - N2P4 (excellent for colony building in SC,EC)
Kanniedood - N3P4 in NW,FS, NC
Sweet Noors/Sour Noors - N2P1 in Eastern Cape
Heuningbossies - N2P2 in NW, NC, FS, EC,WC (light lemon-coloured honey)
Manatoka - N3P2 in Cape Coastal areas
Cape Marigold/Cape weed - N2P3 in WC, SC, EC, KZN (brood builder, Nice honey)