Is it too slowly surrounded by the season to start beekeeping? I live contained by Oklahoma?
Hi fence, I don't think it is too unpaid to start. I am in Oklahoma and I buy honey from a female off the highway hard by okmulgee every year around July. I remember her telling me it take a month or so to get a devout batch started. Keep within mind that she has be at this for lots of years so I guess it could really depend on how many bees one have. Good luck in your endevours. Local honey is the best cure for local allergies.
You hold plenty of time to start a hive. You can start one as late as August if you don't rob the honey.
Usually, an Apiculturist get two crops of honey from a colony. A spring crop and a fall crop. The honey comes from the second and sometimes third story frames, the bees live surrounded by the bottom on the first story frames.
Start with a first story hive box next to comb foundation on the frames. When the frames are almost full of eggs and honey, add the second story hive box full of frames next to comb foundation.
The second story is your honey. If you rob the first story frames of their honey, the bees will starve to death during the winter.
Caveat, during really suitable summers with lots of honey flow, sometimes the colony will take so big the queen moves into the second story frames to lay eggs. If this happens, only add a third story hive box full up with frames and comb foundation.
When it get close to winter, the queen and colony will move back down to the first frame as the eggs hatch, and the comb is reused to store honey.
Answers: I don't think it's too unsettled. I hope to split my new hive subsequent month. You will just hold to feed them like mad of sugar. The hard chunk will be to find someone to ship a package of bees very soon. They take information around the first of the year. It's easy to get hold of queens shipped all summer though.