Spring Bee Cleaning

April’s VERY warm temperatures prompted us to check our bees. Unfortunately we lost a hive. We believe that the base was not level and snow melted and pooled inside causing damage to the hive. Luckily, our other three hives are doing wonderfully. We cleaned and inspected the other hives for any signs of damage or disease. The three checked out alarmingly well. The hive that didn’t winter over was disasembled, the frames filled with honey were frozen to kill the wax moths that began to move in. We’re awaiting a warm day(s) to thaw the honey out and to extract it. The wax will be burned so as to not contaminate the other hives. The remaining hives were outfited with a syrup to get them started after a long hard winter. We look forward to lots of yummy honey this summer!