WEATHER CONDITIONS

• No specific conditions

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

• Install upper entrance for bee flight and ventilation during winter.
• Insulate and wrap hives in northern climates.
• Remove mite treatments from hives before installing upper entrances and wrapping hives for winter.
  

IPM for HONEY BEE PESTS, PARASITES, PATHOGENS and PREDATORS

PESTS: Wax Moths and Small Hive Beetles

• Keep all of your unused combs in mothproof stacks or in a mothproof room or building, preferably unheated. Tape cracks between supers or repair supers so they fit tightly together. Inspect regularly! Treat with Para-moth® or Fumigator® at first sign of wax moth.
• The best solution for wax moths during the winter is to keep your combs in an unheated room where they will freeze.

PARASITES: Parasitic Mites and Nosema

• Remove pesticides as soon as you have met the minimum treatment period (see product labels). Wear nitrile rubber gloves when handling Apistan or CheckMite+. See the labels for Api-Life VAR and Mite-Away II for special handling instructions.

PATHOGENS: AFB and Other Diseases

• No action required

PREDATORS: Bears and Skunks

• Maintain bear fences. Check voltage and trim grass.
• You may deactivate fences after Thanksgiving, unless it is a warm fall, in which case you should leave them on. Fences with solar chargers can be left active all winter.