Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Sept. 16 - Checking the hive

I was pleased yesterday when I went into my hive.  It looks like I will have some honey after all.  One of the supers has several frames of honey so I moved that one to the top and the fairly empty super under it so they can begin to work on that one.  I doubt they'll have time to do much with the lower super given it's mid-September, but maybe they will if we have a warm autumn.

Meanwhile I decided to feed them again because I want them to have enough honey and food to last the winter.  Later on in the year, I'll swap out the syrup with fondant, like I did last year.  That seemed to help winter them over...at least that's my hope.

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