Meeting This Monday: Honey Extraction & Looking ahead to July and August
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Date:
June 17th 2017
Attend CIBA Beekeepers - Learn more about Honey Extraction
Monday Evening June 18 - 6:30 PM
Holliday Park Nature Center
6363 Spring Mill Rd.
Indianapolis IN 46260
Spring 2017 has been good to us and our honey bees.
Colonies have been strong and nectar flows good.
Are you considering harvesting some of your early honey crop?
Experienced beekeepers will be discussing and demonstrating methods for honey extraction.
Come to observe and ask your questions.
Additional Points to Ponder as we move toward July and August
- Main nectar flows are past and temperatures will be increasing:
- Expect brood production to decline, perhaps even significantly
- Egg laying declines naturally as nectar flow declines
- With declining brood, drawing out of new comb will decrease.
- Be careful to not harvest too much honey.
- Nectar flows are in decline
- Bees may consume some of their spring honey to bridge the nectar dearth
- The hottest and driest parts of summer are yet to come - July and August are HOT
- Adequate access to water is important.
- Bees need it for evaporative cooling of the colony
- Regulation of colony temperature is important:
- Temperatures exceeding about 92 degrees seriously impact brood development -
- Ways in which colonies attempt to prevent excessive temperatures
- Increased water evaporation.
- During the nectar flow much evaporation occurred while forming honey
- In absence of nectar flow, water is brought into the colony
- Increased air flow through the colony - particularly by coordinated fanning
- Some hive configurations are better than others
- Fanning also produces metabolic heat
- Bearding - The accumulation of bees on the outside of the colony.
- Bees produce body heat, just as humans do. — Having some bees move “out of the room”, out of the hive. helps keep internal temperatures lower
- Bearding usually begins in the late afternoon as field foraging decreases and more bees remain with the colony.
- Bearding can be DRAMATIC - (Google for Honey Bee Bearding Images)
- Bearding will usually decrease overnight, as temperatures decline and bees begin morning foraging.
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