Dealing with Harvesting Headaches (137)

Honey Bee Obscura Podcast · Jul 27, 2023 · 21m

Every season, it seems, is different than the last, making it difficult or at least challenging. Honey harvesting is no different: what and when and how and where to harvest a honey crop. Deep south beekeepers went through this a month or more ago, but the northern half is now dealing with unpredictable late season honey flows, late summer increased varroa populations and all making good winter bees!

Will this winter be as cold as this summer was hot? Do you still leave as much honey as last year, or because of what looks like an extraordinary fall flow to come, take more than typical? And is…