re: Bee hive spin-off question

It all depends on how serious you are about it. There’s a larger upfront cost. I made the mistake of skimping on certain items up front. As far as when to check. This time of the year every 1-2 weeks. Winter they’re on auto pilot unless they run out of stores. I highly recommend starting with at least 2 hives so that you can borrow resources from 1 if the other starts to fail.

Varroa Mites are the largest problem with honeybees. I highly recommend some sort of treatment program. I know there’s a guy on here that’s treatment free though.

Beekeeping is a crazy wormhole of information and there is a lot of bad information out there.

Kamon Reynolds has a lot of really good information on YouTube.