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An Early Spring To-Do List: • Put the final touches on any woodenware that remains unfinished. Mount the foundation in your frames. Put the last coat of paint on new boxes. • Assemble your swarm call gear (ladder, scooper, rope, nuc box with at least one frame of old brood comb, bucket, etc.). Want free bees? Be ready to drop what you're doing at a moment's notice and answer the call. • Assess your colonies when temperatures are above 60F. Consider pinching poorly laying queens and merging weak hives together, or combine a weak hive to a strong one. If your queen's not doing well now, she's not likely to ever improve. • Reduce congestion in high population hives by adding supers. • Make splits. • Feed colonies with low stores with 1:1 cane sugar syrup and/or pollen substitute, as needed. • Cut queen cells every 10 days if you're not using them to make splits.
• In the Metro area, Red Maple may be winding down, but Dandelion, Spring TiTi, Canola, Blueberry, Wild Mustard and fruit trees are blooming.
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Queen color marking guide ~~~~~~~~~~ Georgia Beekeepers Association
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Take a look at this fun video on overwintering by a young Dr. Delaplane, courtesy of the UGA Cooperative Extension Service.
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