Year # 3

Even though I have not posted in a while, I have not forgotten about my bees. Let me get you all up to date on what I have been doing.

During these past winter months I have been keeping my bees at my house so I would not have to tromp through a field of snow to clear off the hives. As soon as the weather was getting warmer my wife wanted to be outside more and not worry about bees near her. So I moved them back to the same field they were at last year. That was on March 13th.

Before I moved the hives I checked on how they were doing and one hive was dead due to mites and starvation I think. The other hive was doing good, but I noticed that it was low on food stores. I added a feeder and syrup to the hive and then realized after the fact that I was going to move the hive in the next couple of days, oops. When I moved the hive, the syrup sloshed around and spilled everywhere all over my driveway and truck.

Here is a picture of my hive all closed up for the move. It is best to move the hives at night because bees don't fly at night so they are all in there.

One of the next few days I went back to the hive to fill it back up with the syrup and took some more pictures of the hive.