This morning is a lovely spring day. The blossom trees are still in bloom in our backyard, the sky is clear and the sun is beaming. It's cool at 52 F but warming up fast. All the hives have bees outside and the top bar hive with its southern aspect is the busiest. The new hive or 'the split', as we are now going to call it, has only pushed out one dead drone this morning (with white compound eyes), so perhaps they are starting to do better.
The old hive is still piping away with at least two queens inside, so we are expecting our fifth swarm later in the day. It will be the old hive's fourth afterswarm! We are not sure how she can keep it up.
Our Backyard 'Apiary'
Ah, home! That's a lovely picture.
ReplyDeleteYep, it's a good one. I'm sorry you aren't here to see it!
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