Tuesday, March 2, 2010

First Bee inspection of 2010.....


On Sunday with the mild weather we noted a lot of activity around the bee yard.  The bees were taking a cleansing flight.  Just say the snow went from a lovely white blanket to having yellow/orange spots all over it. Yes bees do poo! and poo a lot!

We are members of the local bee association and the monthly meeting was last night and the bees leaving the hive on Sunday for a short flight is actually a very good sign.




Today Michael went out to do a very quick inspection of all the hives and gave all the bees additional feed of sugar syrup. 






We are learning it becomes a family farm affair when we do anything and both May and Lily found Michael rather interesting in his bee suit.