March 2026 Newsletter

March 2026 Newsletter – Laura Winters

This March, Spring started early!!!

With warmer temperatures upon us, the honeybees are gearing up for reproduction. We are noticing our queen bees laying many more eggs, which means her worker bees are bringing in a significant amount of pollen.   The pollen is deposited within the cells of the frame and then made into something called bee bread, also known as baby food for honey bees. 

As we have been watching the plants takeoff, and some already in blossom, we are making our rounds to the bees to provide them with more space before their urge of swarming begins. On rainy days, we have been adding wax to brand new frames. This entails melting down wax and rolling it on to the frames.

As we are providing more space for the bees, we are giving them the freshly waxed frames. In some case, we have been replacing older hive bodies with newly painted yellow hive bodies that we assembled, primed, and painted over the winter. We know that the honey bees will enjoy their upgraded accommodations! Welcome to spring, honey bees!

Unfortunately a part of beekeeping is also dealing with colony losses.   We are doing last checks and counts to put together our action plan for replacing the hives that perished in the freeze – and will start getting the replacement bees in place during April and May.

Rex an I are excited to also point out that we are offering Introduction to Beekeeping classes – Class information and payment links are at:  https://www.BohemianUtopia.com/classes/    Dates are March 14, April 4, and May 2.