It was 19 at the house whenever I left this am. Hopefully, the bees are staying warm and I don't anticipate to see them until this weekend. I haven't been in the hives for about a month, but am still seeing them fly - and have food 'out' in case they need more.
So far I'm down 5 hives - but still have 5 'full' hives of which 3 are in double-deeps and the other 3 are Nuc's that I'm over wintering with new VSH queens. 2 of the VSH queens are from Asheville and 1 is from Georgia.
I scraped and cleaned up the boxes already for spring so they should be ready to go .. fingers crossed ..whenever spring actually starts and think I have enough hive components for another 6 hives. I've also made some contacts with a few others that are interested in having/hosting some of my hives. I need to do some serious 'build-ups' this spring if I can, as I'd like to at least double my hives or possibly get to about 16. I'll be doing this mostly from queen rearing and making up my own Nuc's as I haven't decided to purchase any more packages or nuc's yet from the club. I might have to in order to get the bees - but we'll see how it goes in a couple of months. Of course, it'll be 'too late' to order then. ha ha
Made my reservations for the SC/NC hosted meeting in Monroe NC for next month and am excited to attend.
More later ..
June Frame
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