beehives – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Wed, 30 Sep 2015 19:50:35 +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 beehives – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 10 Reasons Beehives Die in the Winter https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/10-reasons-beehives-dies-in-the-winter/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/10-reasons-beehives-dies-in-the-winter/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2015 13:36:59 +0000 http://backyardbees.wpengine.com/?p=2078 Winter is coming. Now is the time to begin preparing your beehives for a successful overwintering. During winter, instead of foraging for and storing food, the focus of the hive is to overwinter the queen. Successfully overwintering the queen ensures the hive’s survival for next spring. Honeybees during this time will cluster around the queen […]

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