Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Getting ready for winter

Today I finally took off the feeders from Beatrice and Adele hives.  They still had some sugar syrup in them but the bees had completely stopped taking the syrup.

I took away the reduced entrance blocks and replaced them with mouseguards except for Connie hive.  I need Charles to make some holes so I can attach the new mouseguard with drawing pins.  I am not fitting any plastic this year because although I have green woodpeckers locally I had no trouble with them last year so I am just going to monitor carefully.

I checked on Connie hive and bees are busy but the fondant I have put on is still there so they may be taking some of it.  I will heft the hives soon and perhaps put some fondant on Adele and Beatrice. There was alot less activity today but it was alot colder.

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