{"id":407,"date":"2021-02-05T12:47:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T12:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbka.fredo.co.uk\/?page_id=407"},"modified":"2021-02-05T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T12:53:47","slug":"april-june","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mbka.info\/?page_id=407","title":{"rendered":"April &#8211; June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top Tips for April&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As soon as it&#8217;s warm enough (16\u00baC) start inspections of each of your hives and check:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the queen laying?<\/li>\n<li>Is the hive building up?<\/li>\n<li>Does the colony have enough space?<\/li>\n<li>Is there enough food for the time being?<\/li>\n<li>Are there any queen cells?<\/li>\n<li>Are there any signs of disease?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If necessary take appropriate action.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Think about which swarm control method you are going to use.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Tips for May&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carry out 7 day inspections looking for open queen cells with larvae and take swarm control measures<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you have sufficient supers and add them before the bees need them<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you have swarm collection equipment to hand and somewhere to put any swarms<\/li>\n<li>Think about whether you are going to take a spring crop of honey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top Tips for June&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Remove spring honey from the hive if required<\/li>\n<li>Watch for food shortages this month and feed as necessary. Remove supers if you do this to avoid sugar being stored in the frames<\/li>\n<li>Continue to monitor hives for pending swarms and undertake control as necessary<\/li>\n<li>Varroa can start to increase over the next couple of months so check that it&#8217;s not getting out of control. Main treatment is in August after removing the honey crop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Tips for April&#8230;. As soon as it&#8217;s warm enough (16\u00baC) start inspections of each of your hives and check: Is the queen laying? Is the hive building up? Does the colony have enough space? Is there enough food for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-407","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbka.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbka.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbka.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbka.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbka.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mbka.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/mbka.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/407\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbka.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}