5-14-13 Visit/Feeding

Going to be a warm day today(in the 90's), so went early to orchard hives. Visited winery hive last night, had to make a short trip as Jackson Temps in 70's already. Both have growing larvae. Both look healthy. Added second brood super on one of them, even though it doesn't like like it needs it quite yet. Will watch and see what happens. Apple trees in full bloom and grass about 12-16" tall.

5-5-13 Bee Visit

Comb Buildout

Gathering at the top of the frames.

They do this when it's cool to maintain some heat at the top of their supers.

Multitude

Centralized in this image there is a worker chewing it's way out of its comb.

Ready to emerge. 

Growing larvae within the comb

Temps in mid 50's with light breeze. All colonies show signs of larvae but lesser egg

laying from queen as it was very cold and snowed last week.

4-28-13 Visit to our bees

Temperature in low 70's with hardly any wind. Beautiful day. All colonies coming along with brood and Alex also found the queens in two of the colonies. He's getting very good with that as I am always having a hard time finding them. They are hungry bees with all that comb building, with them trying to keep up with the laying of eggs. They are going through sugar water with earnest and I didn't have enough to give them with me, so I stopped out today after my aerial photo shoot. Alex took most of these images. He's getting the hang of that camera.

See the little eggs. Amazing!

Even bees know its better when made in the USA.

The Queen. She's in the center with no stripes.

A little goody left over from last year that they love to feast on.

April 21st bee visit

Visited our bees today. All currently doing well. All have eggs and larvae. Often times it's difficult to find the queens but found them in two of the colonies. In fact in lower left photo of first composite, you can see the queen in lower left of that image. Temps were in mid 60's with fairly gusty winds with rain in forecast.

Better Bees

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A few other photos from today

A good day!

Checked all hives today. The "Orchard Hives" both had eggs and the Winery hive I was able to locate The queen, however no eggs found at this point. Photo is of latter.