January Inspection

In contrast to our February Inspection I have some pictures of our January Inspection. Bruce Lyman was kind enough to make sure we could get into the bees and once we did with the sun shining we saw some very encouraging signs. Many of the bees were taking cleansing flights and the undertakers were hard at work you can see the amount of dead bees that were cleaned from the hives. The insulation was in good shape although I needed to cut a hole in it to allow it to dry.

 The insulation on the hives have held up well through the winter so far.

 Busy undertaker bees cleaning the hives.

Another look at the hives as well as a small pile of bees I swept off of the ledge in front of the door.