Episode #57, Life of Bees in the Winter and Winter Beekeeping with Dan Long

Today we have back Dan Long, Georgia Beekeeper discussing the life of bees and beekeeping in the winter. Dan covers shares some details about native bees and their lifecycles which are very different from honey bees, He tells us about what beekeepers can do for honeybees in years of shortage or if honey has been over harvested, and the number one thing we call an do as gardeners to help bees going into the future. Dan shares about how the large-scale beekeepers manage their hives in winter by moving them, storing them and or retrofitting them, and finally we discuss some of the treatments beekeepers do to kill parasites during the winter brood break, and what exactly happens inside the hive when the bees recognize there is a problem.