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.
