2018: Final Postscript to a Season of Abun

摘要

For many of us, 2018 has been an abundant year: colonies built up rapidly, soon making up for the previous winter's losses and the honey flowed. Of course this wasn't true for all beekeepers. Why were bees starving in some areas and working from dawnto dusk filling supers in others? Listening to tales from other areas and reading the bee journals, the problem many beekeepers experienced was the lack of nectar flow due to drought conditions. Dehydrated plants cannot secrete much nectar.