Busy bees, April 4, 2025. Pollen going in and I see some drones at the Center hive. The hybrid willows are blooming and full of bees, and the Norway Maples, sarvis berries, peaches, and plum will be blooming in a few days probably.
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Pics of some of the frames of honey from the top deep.
It's been above 50F/10C since noon and partly sunny with no wind.
They're good for food, and for numbers it looks like. Won't be any pollen in quantity for maybe a month when the willows bloom.
Video of the entrance before I opened it.
Looked like a lot of bees out of the hive so I decided to open it up and check their food supply. Lots of capped honey in the upper deep, some that looks like it didn't get capped with some of that crystalized. Not very much from the upper deep has been consumed.
There were still a lot of bees in the hive.
A short video of the bee activity today.
Double digit sub freezing temps, snow, then rain and fog, and after 3 weeks it's a partly sunny day. The bees were flying in numbers, vs the occasional single brave (?) bee that would fly off into the cold and damp.
Mostly sunny, 48F / 9C with a 10mph wind.
Before noon while the sun was shining on the hive, the temperature inside dropped to 25.9F / -3.5C and there were bees active at the entrance and it was almost 5F / -15C outside.
The bottom board at the entrance felt a little warm in the sun.
This afternoon when the hive has been more shaded the temp inside went up to 37F / 3C.
It was sunny and 51F / 10C this morning before noon and the bees were taking care of business after some days of rain and snow before that.
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Tom