hot hive – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:08:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 hot hive – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Prepare Your Bees for Extreme Heat https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/prepare-your-bees-for-extreme-heat-zbwz1907zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/prepare-your-bees-for-extreme-heat-zbwz1907zsau/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:09:00 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4407 Bees get hot just like humans do. Be prepared to support them during extreme heat by taking a look at water, ventilation, nutrition and helping to make sure they have easy access to these. If you don't, your beekeeping experience may be less enjoyable.

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/prepare-your-bees-for-extreme-heat-zbwz1907zsau/feed/ 5 10 Steps to Requeening a Hot Hive https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/10-steps-to-requeen-a-hot-hive-zbwz1901zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/10-steps-to-requeen-a-hot-hive-zbwz1901zsau/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:14:04 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4259 It’s amazing the way a beehive can have a personality. While the colony is made up of thousands of individual bees, it is the overall collective demeanor of the group that makes it as if you are working with a single organism. If you have an overly-aggressive hive you can change the behavior of your […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/10-steps-to-requeen-a-hot-hive-zbwz1901zsau/feed/ 6 Do You Have a Hot Hive? https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/do-you-have-a-hot-hive-zbwz1901zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/do-you-have-a-hot-hive-zbwz1901zsau/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:47:56 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=4255 The governor of Michigan just declared a State of Emergency for our state due to record-breaking low temperatures. As I write this post (January 2019), it’s currently -6 degrees F with a wind chill of -30. So worrying if our hive is overheated is really not a concern right now…quite the opposite. However, coming this […]

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