The bees have slurped up all the sugar syrup from a week ago so I added more into the top hive feeder. That should keep them happy during the upcoming rain and some colder nights ahead. I will, however, need more sugar.
I wanted to look at the super and see if any of the frames had enough honey to harvest. Nope! But they seem to be all drawn out and loaded with bees at this point. They are also vicious! They were once again all over me but I didn't get stung miraculously.
Looks like there's some gopher activity out there. After the rain, I am going to treat some areas with neem oil because I had a lot of mole and gophers eating up my lawn this year and they're still around. I have a lilac bush that has some white mold on stems and it's dying so I will treat that at the same time. I've been using milky spore but it isn't working good enough, if at all. I expect it does some good but I still have too many critters around looking for food.
Last night a racoon, for example, was on my front porch. My camera caught it...this morning I see it has eaten some of the pumpkin...other ones have nibbles too and I've tried using cayenne pepper and it's helped but it didn't stop this coon!
I've moved the hives around a bit to give me room to maneuver.
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