

Winter prep
I did my best to reduce the entrance to this hive. The entrance reducer wouldn't fit back in, but just placing it there made it easier for the bees to defend the entrance. I saw yellow jackets trying to get in and not being successful. I did not see any fighting between bees, so hopefully the reducers are enough to keep them from getting robbed. I also put a reducer on the vertical hive. The other long hive has had one on all summer. I took the top super off the vertical