Dad is back from his 2 month RV trip, so on October 30th we winterized our bees! Temps were in the upper 30's, and it was windy. Not ideal but still the best weather day of the week, so we figured we'd better get this done as winter is moving in fast all of a sudden!
Beeatrice still seems to be the weaker of the two hives...there were some dead bees at the entrance (though I remember those being there a couple weeks ago when I went to feed them), and there were more bees up under the cover in the top box. They all really stayed inside the hives as we worked.
Penelobee's colony, however, we could hear the roar of buzzing inside as we worked, and they immediately started coming out once they saw the vaporizer coming in their entrance. There were not many up around the lid so I'm assuming they are down low where they should be.
Feeder pails were pretty full on both of them, which we removed and dumped out, so they've gotten all the syrup they are going to get for the winter!
Here is a video of what we did today!
Our next BIG activity will be the glorious day of honey extraction!! This will happen in November, when we can get a date to get together, so stay tuned!
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