Five Things New Beekeepers Should Not Worry About
In my experience, most new beekeepers are worrywarts. They spend a lot of energy fretting over their bees, but mostly they focus on the wrong things.
1. Cooling the Hive
Honey bees like to keep their brood nests between 90 and 97 degrees F (25 and 32 degrees C). This is one reason why they prefer to live in cavities, it allows for better temperature control and insulation.
Bees maintain this temperature by generating heat with their flight muscles both on the surface of the combs and inside cells. If they become too hot, they are perfectly capable of cooling the colony as long as they have a
