Preparing for winter

The last couple of weekends have involved preparing the bees for the winter. Essentially this means:

• Checking the amount of winter honey store
• Checking the state of the frames and boxes
• Inspecting the health of the brood, ensuring no AFB, varroa or other nasties
• Reducing the number of available brood boxes if appropriate
• Putting in varroa treatment, in our case using Apivar

Yesterday was the turn of the four hives at Hawkswood Place and I took a series of videos and photos.

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