Jan 12, 2020 - 60 degrees

Yesterday, with the beautiful, unlikely warm weather, the bees were flying around the hive. They were cleaning house and I helped them by removing dead bees from the entrance.

I am just so happy to still have bees. I did things differently (but winter isn't over so...) :

1) treated for mites the entire season and
2) I didn't wrap the hive this year
3) Put cedar pillow in super at the top to catch moisture
4) took no honey myself last summer so there's plenty of food.

I did see dead bees in the snow as well which always makes me sad.