I moved the hives off of my back deck and organized my main bee yard some. I had some stragglers not want to orient to the new spots and they buzzed around the back deck looking for home.
It was warm enough to crack open the hives to take a peek and several have me worried. They have eaten through ALL of the bottom and most of the middle boxes of honey. This means they have one medium left. I threw sugar in there via the mountain camp method (place sugar on newspaper and wet slightly to let them eat it as they go through the rest of the honey) and will be making candy boards (hard candy that sits in the inner cover for them to eat if they run out of honey). I guess 66 lbs of honey is not enough for this climate.
I should have enough honey next year to have a few supers left for winter swapouts if they get low next year.
Wow! You are certainly warmer than we are. NO SNOW??? :)
ReplyDeleteYou have some of the best looking hives I've ever seen. It is nice seeing them in their new location. Are you going to try those candy boards this winter?