There are times like this week that remind you that you live in Michigan. On Tuesday the weather was 76 degrees and absolutely beautiful. Last night and today snow was spitting down from the sky. . .It is so cold that we have had more than a 40 degree drop in temperature and that's not taking into count that there is a definate wind chill going on.
The Bees are really having a rough start to spring. The only good thing is that they actually had feed on the hives for the last couple of weeks. Thank goodness Jim jumped in and got things going in the bee yard early. I think it's going to really make a difference in how things work out for us this year.
Jim and I are headed out to try to help someone out and remove some bees from their property. They got some logs brought in and found out that a couple of them had bees inside. Now I was pretty clueless on how this was ever going to happen. I mean what do you do? Do you reach in and take it out comb by comb, or do you cut out the log and try to get as much of the hive as you can? So as usual the Uncle Ted phone call happened and he gave Jim a couple of suggestions. One of them was to cut the log portion of the hive out and put it underneath a hive box and see if they won't just go up inside. (I can't imagine that it's going to be that easy but we will see.)
I'll take the camera and upload photo's later.
In the meantime stay warm:)
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