bees in winter – Keeping Backyard Bees

Candy Board — Winter Food for Bees

KBB Editor — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:45:17 +0000

Honeybees work. They work all spring and summer to store up enough pollen and honey for their colony to survive the winter. However, sometimes, their best efforts are not enough and they can end up starving to death if their supplies run out. As you have read, in the early spring and late fall when […]

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Winter In A Top Bar Hive

KBB Editor — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:53:47 +0000

We have decided what to do with the top bar hive for winter. We last examined it in mid-October to check out how much food it had. There are 14 or 15 full-size combs drawn out. The four in front had each had brood, but were mostly empty when we examined them. There was honey […]

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Bees Collecting Pollen in December

Nancy Buffington — Thu, 31 Dec 2015 01:49:47 +0000

While nectar and pollen sources are non-existent to my eyes, the bees have their sources and they are certainly bringing in pollen. I saw bees bringing in white, yellow and even red pollen.

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