Yesterday was a busy day with studying for Wednesday night Bible study. But we had a warm day so I opened the Warre Beehives and checked to make sure the queens were released. Monday and Tuesday were too cold to open the hives so waited until it warmed up.
I again checked on the bees without smoking them. They flew all around me but never acted like they wanted to sting me. I did get bumped a couple of time and I just back off and let them settle down, They were drawing comb but I did not want to pull any out at this time. They are bringing in loads of pollen. and I have followed some of them to wild flowers and they are also getting nectar.
I had some jar feeders in the top of the Warre hives I needed to move them so that I could fix the bottom box that the top bars were not lined up correctly. Well in one of the hives I spilled the sugar water everywhere inside and outside the hive. This caused some robbing from the other Warre beehive so I had to move the opening to the side where the sugar water was not at the entrance. Within about 30 minutes they all returned to their own hives.
I will now wait until the first of May to open the hives and check for eggs and brood.
All about bees. This will be about my adventures keeping bees in my back yard in a Warre Beehive. The ups and downs of a hobby bee keeper.
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