It is impossible to learn how to be a good beekeeper without having a few problems along the way. No one is the perfect beekeeper all the time. But, we can learn from others. By examining the most common beginner beekeeping mistakes -you may be able to prevent some of them from happening to your hives.
Let’s look at the most common areas where rookie beekeeping mistakes happen and how to watch out for problems.
- Common Beekeeping Problems
- failure to feed hives when needed
- failure to feed new colonies long enough
- inspecting hives too frequently
- not checking the status of your queen bee
- not having extra beekeeping equipment
- feeling that a swarm is a beekeeping failure
- failure to control varroa mites
- taking advice from everyone
- placing beehives too close to your house
- failing to do routine hive inspections
- not using your bee smoker
- waiting too late to install a bear fence in bear country
- not using hive stands for your hives
- not respecting bee space – leaving out frames
- harvesting too much honey
Mistakes can be a great learning tool.
These are just a few of the many “oops” moments beekeepers have and are in no way conclusive.
Fortunately, the bees give us time to redeem ourselves. So, if you fall, dust yourself off and keep going. That’s how we all did it.
Not Becoming a Beekeeper is the worst mistake you could make.
Many of these beekeepers stated they wished they would have started earlier. And all of these keepers who gave confessions in order to help you and me learned from their mistakes or else they wouldn’t still be keeping bees.
So, will you take action? Analyze this list and decide how they can help you to become a better beekeeper.
How can you let this list of beekeeping mistakes help you to succeed with your skill and learn rather than to run away?
