Across
- 2. A service that beekeepers can offer to farmers (e.g. for almonds).
- 3. Four established frames of a hive sold to beekeepers.
- 4. ___ build up during Jan/Feb to increase colony numbers.
- 6. Boards and bricks, to feed during the early season build up.
- 9. Nectar dearth begins when ___ ends.
- 10. Apitherapy utilizes what bee product?
- 11. In winter, reduce entrance to ___ of an inch.
- 13. From September 15th until November 15th, sugar syrup ratio.
- 16. It’s a good time to raise queens in this month.
- 17. An alcoholic drink utilizing honey.
- 22. ___ season; can occur as early as February, but typically Mar/Apr.
- 23. Also called “bee glue”.
- 24. Bees create heat by doing this in the winter. We do this too.
Down
- 1. Overwinter with your best ___; plural.
- 2. Less expensive option than nucs, but more work involved.
- 5. Fed to all larva, for a while at least.
- 7. Bee saliva and honey ferment to become this.
- 8. Collected from plants and packed into their corbicula.
- 12. Condition where brood next have honey/nectar, no room for eggs.
- 14. Produced by glands on the bee’s underside.
- 15. From August 1st until September 15th, sugar syrup ratio.
- 18. Month where the first inspection tends to occur, between 60-70F.
- 19. The Major Honey Flow occurs sometime in this month.
- 20. Hives need 60-80 lb of this during the winter.
- 21. Apivar, Apiguard, Formic Pro, and Oxalic Acid are all forms of ___.
- 22. Any topside hive box over a brood chamber for storing honey.