Last week on March 12th, Casey and I checked the hive because the temperature hovered around 55 F for a few hours. The pollen patty was completely eaten so we replaced it. The upper chamber looked great! Full of bees, brood, and honey.
The lower chamber was just about completely empty. No brood, no honey, very few bees. I called Graham and he said that this was perfectly normal for this time of year. He suggested that we rotate the boxes; placing the top one down and the lower on up. We did this.
We are continuing to feed them the 1:1 sugar syrup which they are consuming at the rate of 6 to 8 ounces a day. It is very cold and extremely windy so we have put the reducer back into the opening.
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