January
Begin emergency feeding with frames of honey, sugar candy, or dry sugar, if necessary.
Clean, paint, and repair equipment.
Check apiary for vandalism, hive covers blown off, etc.
Order packages, nucs, queens.

February
Check colonies for honey stores.
Continue emergency feeding with frames of honey, sugar candy, or dry sugar, if necessary.
Continue to prepare equipment for coming season.
Order packages, nucs, queens.
Clean up dead colonies.

March
Continue emergency feeding, if necessary.
Feed pollen supplements or substitutes, if needed.
Check for and clean up dead colonies.
Clean out entrances and bottom boards.
Unite weak colonies.

April
Strengthen weak colonies with queenless packages.
Introduce package bees on drawn combs.
Monitor colony stores, especially if weather is cold and wet.
Requeen colonies with failing queens.
Reverse brood chambers when weather moderates.
Check colonies for disease.
Add supers to strong colonies at the time of maple or dandelion bloom.
Equalize colony strength.

May
Monitor colonies for queen cells.
Control swarming.
Add more space if necessary.
Place queen excluder below shallow super on colonies for comb honey.
Install packages on foundation.
Split strong colonies.
Capture swarms.

June
Continue to check for queen cells.
Rear queens if you prefer your own stock.
Check colonies for disease.
Remove comb honey supers when properly sealed.
Provide plenty of super space.
Control swarming.
Capture swarms.
Replace defective combs with full sheets of foundation.

July
Remove comb honey supers when properly sealed.
Check for queen cells.
Add sufficient super space.
Remove and extract early season honey crop.
Freeze comb honey to prevent wax moth damage.

August
Remove and extract summer honey crop.
Remove section supers.
Do not work bees unless necessary to avoid robbing.
Add more space if needed.

September
Provide supers for fall goldenrod and aster flows.
Requeen colonies.
Check colonies for disease.
Remove buckwheat honey.
Kill or unite weak colonies.

October
Begin fall feedihg.
Unite weak colonies.
Prepare colonies for winter.
Extract honey from fall flow.
Put on entrance reducers to keep out mice.

November
Develop your honey marketing program.
Begin late fall feeding.
Finish handling honey crop.
Order new equipment for coming season.

December
Repair and assemble hive parts.
Develop a marketing program for the holiday season.