Spring Time

Today I took off the winter wraps and feed them 3½ lts of syrup to help build them up. Over the past few days they have been very active and are looking for food. It is about a week earlier than last year and I looked at last years temperatures, both day and night, compared them to the forecasted ones for the coming week and they are comparable. I put 7 colonies to bed for the winter and and lost only one, so far. I expected this as one seamed to be a little weaker than the others. This happens. Here they are ready to go for the new year.

Something New

 This time of year the girls are out for cleansing flight and looking for food. It's 10ºC out there and they need some food, so I am trying something new. It's too cool to put syrup feeder pails on, I heard about adding fondant to help them out. These pictures were taken two day after I put them in and they are working on it. 

Nice cluster.

This one looks strong as well.

Another good sized cluster.

 

Winter 2021

 It's been a while since I updated this site and I'll try harder. It has been getting warmer during the days and the girls are out for cleansing flights and looking for food, so I thought I would try something a little different. I put a syrup pale on a feed try out front to see if they'll take it. Today was a test and it didn't take. So I'll try again when it gets a bit warmer, before I take off the winter wrap and put on individual feeds for each colony. Here is what I did, I don't know if it will help or hurt, only time will tell.