With a very strange winter that had temperatures very cold and then not so with sunshine, I was concerned on how the bees would make it through to spring. We've been checking on them throughout the winter, keeping snow from the front entrance, because it would rain and ice up quickly, they didn't seem too bad. Now that spring is here, and they are becoming very active I thought I'd give them protein patties, I only had two left and split them between all six colonies, I have more on the way, I'll give the some meds in sugar syrup to help them out. After I took off the winter wraps and gave them the patties, they were a little more active, even the ones that didn't look like they were very strong. We'll see how the next couple of weeks turn out and hopefully they'll all come through strong. Here are few pictures of our winter and after the wraps were taken off. This is the earliest I've taken the wraps off.
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| 6th of March snow fall. |
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| They need to be cleaned out. |
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| One of the colonies, looked really good. |
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| Another one, looking strong. |
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| All unwrapped, ready for summer. |
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| Busy looking for food, the first two on the left. |
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| The middle two, not as busy but there is activity. |
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| A slow start on the two on the right, but busy inside. |
