There is life!
After two weeks of bitterly cold temperatures we finally have a break. I knew the bees would take advantage of above freezing temps and...
Winter Ready
I hadn't checked my hives since October, because there is nothing I can do at this point, and they are not handy to just drop in and look...
All Wrapped Up!
On Friday Oct. 13th 2017 we had a beautiful day to prepare the hives for winter. John Krueger showed up to help me wrap the hives and...
Remember those bees don't read the books!
In the picture above you can see the newspaper between the two hives. As of yesterday, Oct. 3, 2017, they still had not combined and...
Hive Update
Since the field day I have been over to check on what I am referring to as the "double hive", or the one we combined. I am calling it...
September Field Day
Here is a nice picture of the queen in the vertical hive we combined with the horizontal hive. Thanks to Kelly Bolthouse for taking the...