Our recommended first steps are that you get hold of the blue book, Beekeeping in South Africa which is available on our website by mail order or if you collect in Centurion. *15 in stock*

Southern Hemisphere: It's peak season for the beekeeper with holidays coming up too! Take advantage of seasonal highs in pollen and nectar production by the summer flowers and crops and inspect your colonies for harvesting beautiful raw honey!

It makes life a lot easier if you use a centrifuge or honey extractor to extract honey from the comb. The bees don't have to rebuild the honeycomb before being able to store it again. They simply have to repair and refill the honeycomb cells that were emptied out after the extraction process is completed.

It would be a good idea to add a new empty super to any colonies that you are harvesting from. Bees tend to leave full supers uncapped if there is still a very strong nectar flow on. This gives the impression that there is no need for removing and harvesting the honey as it is yet to be capped - not ripe nor ready for harvesting - however this is usually due to the fact that the bees have no other room to store the influx of strong nectar so they do not complete the final stage of capping the cells.

The solution: Add an empty super or deep super for the bees to start afresh and build new honeycomb and new storage for placing the nectar and soon you will find that uncapped but fully built or drawn out comb is capped and sealed, ripe for harvesting

Northern Hemisphere it's cooling down. Autumn is here.

Make preparations to start protecting your colonies from the coming cold. Find late blooming flower locations to harness a last minute honey harvest. 

Refrain from harvesting any honey at this time. The honey that is in the hives should remain as their food for the wintering period. Or you could feed your bees regularly with sugar water. 

   
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