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Why feeding pollen in July might help, and feeding it in September might not Back in March I wrote about honey bee nutrition, and I pontificated (yes, I do that) about the merits of feeding during a dearth. I said that I suspected my bees had suffered nutritional deficits in late summer, that this would … Read more

In recent times, beekeeping seasons have changed for me. Only ten years ago, the idea of swarming in April was preposterous, whereas now it’s normal. The so-called ‘June gap’, a period of little forage between spring and summer blooms, has compressed to almost nothing. For the last few seasons the majority of summer honey is … Read more