Almost as I had predicted to my wife, the flight bees were out, doing their little dance in front of the hive, gathering in the scent of the hive before venturing forth to do their bee thing. The number of bees coming from the hive has double today. I was a little worried as the size of bee mass inside the hive has remained constant for the last couple weeks. Hope this will be the major turn around for them.
Jean from the Bee Meetup group just lost her hive in February during a warm spell, in which they just all flew away. Next fall I'm inserting the queen excluder just above the entrance, as I don't expect next winter to be as harsh as this one was, but who knows, maybe we have another ice age coming and as this is the first year my bees didn't do the same thing, maybe I can stop it in its tracks.
Time to get the swarm trap ready and in place, hopefully I can trap the swarms before they all fly away. Later
Jean from the Bee Meetup group just lost her hive in February during a warm spell, in which they just all flew away. Next fall I'm inserting the queen excluder just above the entrance, as I don't expect next winter to be as harsh as this one was, but who knows, maybe we have another ice age coming and as this is the first year my bees didn't do the same thing, maybe I can stop it in its tracks.
Time to get the swarm trap ready and in place, hopefully I can trap the swarms before they all fly away. Later
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