Preparing Your Hives for Winter
Few Essentials for Winterizing Beehives. Hearing about severe winter kill numbers of hives has prompted me to see how our Ozark Cedar Hives clients are doing. We sent out a survey to over 100 beekeepers who had purchase our hives in the past 8 years. 14 responded from 10 different states. With the low response, the results are not conclusive, but I feel are worth sharing. These 14 beekeepers started with 102 cedar hives last fall and 18 died, 18% loss.  Of those that tre
