We will be sending you tips, articles and news about beekeeping that will help you to better understand the benefits of bees for all of us!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. Southern Hemisphere: Work on getting The Bees set up for winter and your winter jobs too!
Focus on final harvesting of honey but leave honey in the brood chamber for the bees. Some leave honey in the super as well. If you have a late source of food it makes more sense.
Lavender, some blue gums & Sunflower is flowering in NW, Limpopo and roundabout.
Make sure your hives are above ground so that when the heavy rains that we have experienced in Gauteng and surrounds come that your bee hives don't get flooded.
Purchase honey storage tanks if you have a large sum of honey to keep over the autumn period.
Northern Hemisphere: The bees will START venturing out now! With temps above 13 degrees Celsius bees flight muscles can now move and will seize the opportunity to take the sky.
With spring on its way, be sure to clean your gloves, smoker, hive tool and any wintering super chambers/ shallow boxes to be used shortly on the bee hives.
Sugar water can be used to feed the bees and supplement their diet over the cold winter days and nights. However, use only white sugar as brown tends to ferment quicker and give the bees gastro. They can die from this.
Feed the bees with sugar water. This will begin the process of the queen bee laying extra eggs in lieu of increased food. By encouraging the queen bee to start laying early before the spring flowers come into bloom the colony benefits from the flush blossoming in strength from the start instead of using the spring blossom to build their numbers.
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