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Do you need to take care daily? Or is it something that can de done once a week for example?

• lostlogin 3y ago
  > Do you need to take care daily? With the bees, no. It’s very variable among beekeepers. I open the hive once every 1-2 weeks in spring and maybe once a month in summer. The honey harvest is quite hard work in autumn and then I close them up until spring, not going in for 4-5 months. Opening a hive should be done with an objective and is sometimes a quick 5-10 minute job (are there eggs?) and sometimes a bit protracted, like the first spring check which took me about 90 minutes last weekend (disease check, stores check, clean up frames. Look for eggs and the queen, treat for varroa, added a box and queen excluder to the hive). The honey harvest is hot, heavy work and I have got a lot better at it but it still takes me 4-5 hours once a year, early autumn. It’s been as much as 250kgs of honey from my 2 hives and hot, hard work when organised so you can imagine what the first few times are like as it’s bees, sticky honey and heavy boxes and buckets. I look at the entrance every few days, but that’s not required. Watching a beehive on a warm day is a bit like watching a fire in winter, its slightly hypnotic. > Do you need to take care daily? With coffee, it’s much more rigorous and needs attention 2-3 times per day.