Its was 85º, clear skies and lightly breezy at the Bee Yard.
Moved Gene's four hives on Sunday of this week, to the bee yard in the country.
Today I found that two hives absconded. The two remaining hives were busy defending their hives from ants.
I did discover that one of the hives that left, settled on to a branch of a pecan tree about 40' up.
I didn't have a ladder or any safe way to retrieve that swarm. I did put an empty hive body with frames of foundation just below the branch.
I started feeding the two remaining hives today. One hive has a quart jar of 1:1 sugar water and the other hive has a gallon feeder bucket.
I also put down insecticide around the two hives to deal with the ant problem.
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