Saturday, April 6th, was a disappointment. The sun never made an appearance in the afternoon as predicted. But temperatures were warm enough for the bees to be working the budding maple tress for pollen.
Here you can see two bees with loaded pollen baskets.
Close up. See the third bees with white in its pollen basket
I have also been trying to get the bees to take a little stimulative sugar syrup using a hive top feeder. No luck; must still be too cold.
Only a few bees at the top of the feeder; almost none down on the sugar syrup.
So I decided to do a quick in and out check of the hive to check on their overall health.
Darn, there's another of those plastic frames I don't like. But the hive is looking healthy with no signs of nosema. I will need to keep watch on this hive because it looks to have the potential to swarm later this spring.
1 comment:
The bees are looking great Fred, spring can't be far away now.
Gary
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