Final Frame Check

It was 70 degrees today so Casey and I decided to give the hive a quick check. The frame in the picture is from the center of the lower box. It show about 50% of the frame is capped honey and the rest has honey in each cell but is uncapped. They are all worker bees and they appear to be very young. Casey thinks that a new brood must have hatched recently. I agree. We are still feeding the bees sugar water because they are drinking it faster than we can put it out.

I talked with the woman at Wills Ridge Lumber about using the back northwest cornor of thier field, which is adjacent to our land, for two hives. She said that I would have to talk with Joe on Friday but that he probably would have no problem with it.

Just Me

Casey took this last week. The bees have kicked out/killed all of the drones and are busily getting ready for winter.

Fall Treatment

We added the 65% formic acid pads on October 28th. The pad is to remain on for three weeks. This is a preventative treatment for both Varroa and Tracheal mites since we have not observed the presence of any mites so far. The problem is that the weather has turned cold and the average daytime temperatures are around 45 to 50 degrees. Hopefully it is not too cold for the treatment to work.