Quite frankly, if not done during the first season of keeping bees, the second and third year are the years that set the course for many beekeeper's success or failure. Once the first year is completed, beekeepers are either challenged to start over for a variety of reasons: package bee failure, queen failure, general colony neglect, ignorance of basic bee management practices, failure to recognize problems with queens, diseases and mites, and countless other issues. Or, through a combination of luck and good training and self-study they have managed to keep their colonies alive and are ready to grow their colony numbers or increase production through better management.
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