{"id":1867,"date":"2013-09-09T20:46:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2013-12-30T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T18:02:33","slug":"new-beekeeping-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/new-beekeeping-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"New Beekeeping Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There\u2019s a lot to learn, so in your first year, focus on the basics.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"small-title\">Basic timeline for new beekeepers:<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Fall before getting your bees:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<div class=\"columns-wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li>Attend classes<\/li>\n<li>Read books (Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile&#8217;s\u00a0<i>The Beekeeper\u2019s \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Handbook<\/i> and Tom Seeley\u2019s <i>Honeybee Democracy<\/i> are two of our favorites)<\/li>\n<li>Join the <a title=\"Marin Beekeepers Association\" href=\"http:\/\/marinbees.org\/wp\/welcome-to-the-marin-beekeepers-site\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marin Beekeepers Association\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winter before getting your bees:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Order equipment and bees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get your bees!<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to inspect your hives and prevent swarming.<\/li>\n<li>Attend classes and get as much info as possible<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monitor your hive to control swarming.<\/li>\n<li>Learn to recognize when \u2013 and what \u2013 to feed, if necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Help protect (and prevent) robbing by yellow jackets, ants and other bees.<\/li>\n<li>In late summer, start to monitor varroa mite levels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fall: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continue monitoring % infestation of varroa mites<\/li>\n<li>Learn about mite management options<\/li>\n<li>Harvest excess honey not needed by the bees for winter. (Not always \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 possible in your colony\u2019s first year.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winter:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clean up equipment from dead out colonies.<\/li>\n<li>Learn to identify American Foulbrood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"columns-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a lot to learn, so in your first year, focus on the basics. &nbsp; Basic timeline for new beekeepers: \u00a0Fall before getting your bees:\u00a0 Attend classes Read books (Diana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile&#8217;s\u00a0The Beekeeper\u2019s \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Handbook and Tom Seeley\u2019s Honeybee Democracy are two of our favorites) Join the Marin Beekeepers Association\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,50,51],"tags":[53,61,52],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beekeeping-basics","category-learning","category-tips","tag-beekeeping","tag-beekeeping-basics","tag-learning-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonniebeecompany.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}