Busy Bee

originally posted 3/21/2010

Man has it been busy here! It seems everybody in the world wants a beehive. Working like a galley slave building hives and getting the girls ready to divide into new colonies. And now, on about the first day of Spring, 4 inches of snow! Oy, what weather is this?? But the GOOD news is, out of my 40 hives, not a single one died out! In fact, they all look really good, even the one that went queenless in late Fall–it is full of bees. I gave it some eggs/larvae, go for it girls!I believe the incredible survival rate is due to by choosing for survival by stocking with swarms in the first place–swarms that had come from untreated feral stock. More on this later, I gotta run,  bzzzzzz