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Welcome to the Brown bee wiki!

This wiki is intended to be a helpful resource for anyone keeping brown bees (Apis mellifera mellifera). All information in this wiki is tailored to brown bees, unless otherwise stated. We hope that this resource can help Brown bee beekeepers with their day-to-day management of their Brown bees.

	Winter to Spring	Spring	Early Summer	Mid Summer	Late Summer	Fall
Flowering		Hazelnut Willow
Varroa	Spring treatment	Drone brood removal
Apiary health	Spring inspection Bottom board cleaning	Weak and queenless colony management
Food supply	Remove surplus sugar frames
Swarming			Check for queen cells
Expanding		Add frames	Add supers	Add supers
Queen		Check queen presence and egg laying	Find and mark queen
Harvest
Equipment	Prepare equipment