Nectar Flows (016)

Honey Bee Obscura Podcast · Apr 8, 2021 · 15m

If you keep good records every year, you'll know about when to expect the various nectar flows your areas has almost every year and that your bees need to make a honey crop.

Of course, your bees will tell you when a nectar flow starts, and when it's over. Tell you they will. Open a colony before a flow and the bees are busy looking for food. Open one during a good flow and you will find the happiest bees in the world. Open a colony just as a flow stops and you better have a good beesuit and veil, because they get real testy when the food stops coming in.

Nectar flows overlap, which is great…