![]() ![]() What is a moisture quilt? It is (in my case) a medium super with the bottom covered in canvas, filled with wood shavings and holes drilled in the side for ventilation. On the top of the hive under the outer cover, I built a “moisture quilt” or a “vent box”. How I got my bees through winter with a candy board, moisture quilt, and insulation: For each of my hives, I made a candy board and a moisture quilt (or vent box). You may also be interested: What I wish I had known before owning bees. ![]() So, I had to come up with a plan to help my bees stay warm and drier this winter. Moisture in the hive is very detrimental to bees because they can battle chalkbrood. And darnit! I saw slugs…3 SLUGS!… in my garden for the first time ever. I should have had honey from my oldest hive this year, but they were battling moisture problems from the winter months and the year continued to be an abnormally wet year. And I installed a Nuc (nucleus colony) and a package of bees in the spring. You can quickly get access to a 50+ resource page to help you with your bees and homesteading here: Free Resource PageĬurrently, I have 3 hives. The spring and summer months begin, for a beekeeper, months of continuous checking, wondering…and dreams of honey.īut as the fall comes to a close, it is our jobs as beekeepers to help provide our bees with the best possible chance of making it through the cold winter months. Checking the hives through the winter months doesn’t consist of anything but checking for obvious and large problems like a tipped-over hive. Maybe, just maybe, our bees are living the grandest adventure possible, and if you leap into beekeeping as I did, you may be swept up into that adventure as well!īut up north in Central Montana, technically a zone 4 that treats my flowers and garden like a zone 3, this crazy adventure only lasts through the warm season…which is approximately 3 months. Honey is so delicious and they spend their entire lives focused on honey! Click here for more info about cookies collected and our privacy policy. ![]() As an Amazon associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. *We get commissions for purchases made through links in this post. ![]()
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