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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. Obviously, exact dates for beekeeping activities will vary greatly by year and location, depending on the weather and flowering times of bee food sources. Please keep this in mind when reading this wiki! ADD SOMETHING ABOUT THESE BEES BEING ENDANGERED AND HOW PROUD SOME PEOPLE ARE ABOUT ACTIVELY ENSURING THEIR SURVIVAL.

	Winter to Spring	Spring	Early Summer	Mid Summer	Late Summer	Fall
Flowering		Hazelnut Willow	Apple trees Chestnut trees	Raspberry White clover	Heather	Hedera (DK) Birch turns yellow Leaves falling
Varroa	Spring treatment	Drone brood removal			Formic acid or thomyl treatment	Oxalic acid treatment in broodless colonies
Apiary health	Spring inspection Bottom board cleaning	Weak and queenless colony management	Summer inspection			Autumn inspection
Food supply	Remove surplus sugar frames			Check food supply	Feed	Take feeders off Add winter covers
Swarming			Check for queen cells	Make splits
Expanding		Add frames	Add supers	Add supers
Queen		Check queen presence and egg laying	Find and mark queen		Change queen
Harvest				Add queen excluder	Remove supers with honey
Equipment	Prepare equipment					Clean and maintain equipment