First Peek of the Season!

Today we were finally able to get out and take a look at the bees for the first time this season! A couple months ago I knocked on the hives and put my ear to the entrance, and heard buzzing in Penelobee's hive.  No sound from Beeatrice. As we had suspected, today we confirmed that Beeatrice's colony did not make it.  However, I'm super excited to say that Penelobee's colony seems to be alive and well! There were lots of bees on the inner cover and up high, looking for more food. There was still some pollen patty left but we gave them a whole one, and put a feeder pail on top today.  It's still too cold to open them up and look farther inside, and too cold to remove the winter covers.  But, once it warms up a bit we'll get deeper into the boxes and see what we have to work with in 2018! In the meantime, here's a video of what we did today!