One change I’m pushing this year is creating a rough timeline of what my year will look like through July. I will then start my bee year next year August 1st. He’s what’s left of this bee year, what’s your bee calendar look like?
Week Of | Activity |
March 13th | Put on Feed |
March 20th | Put on Feed |
March 27th | Put on Feed, |
April 3rd | Check food supplies, switch to liquid, add Apivar, add Pollen Patties, count brood |
April 10th | Prep for packages, |
April 16th | Set Packages |
April 24th | Feed Packages, OA Vape Packages |
May 1st | OA Vape Packages, Feed |
May 8th | Make Builder and First 10 Grafts, OA Vape, Feed |
May 15th | Make Splits from over-wintered |
May 22nd | OA Vape, Feed, Make 2nd builder |
May 29th | Inspections, Add Supers |
June 5th | Inspections |
June 12th | OA Sponge, Inspections |
June 19th | Inspections |
June 26th | Inspections |
July 3rd | Pull Supers |
July 10th | Make 2 frame bees 1 feed splits |
July 17th | Open feed |
July 24th | Inspections |
July 31st | Thymol, Add Feeding Shims |