21 February, 12:30pm - 2011

It was 75º at the Back Yard Hive, clear skies and no wind.

Back Yard Bees
Since the weather has been warming up into the 70's lately I did a quick inspection. I have been feeding the bees a 1:1 sugar/water mix. This hive has two deeps.

The feeder jar was empty so I removed it and started a quick inspection. The top hive body was filled with bees on all frames. Frames 10,8,1,2 were full of capped honey and some pollen. Frames 3-7 had capped honey, pollen,brood,eggs,larva. There was more capped honey and pollen then brood. The top box weighed a lot! So I swapped the top and bottom deeps. The bottom box was much lighter than the top one, I did not go through those frames. The bees did not like this. It looks like there are a lot of bees and not much of a nectar flow. They were agitated but they were not landing and stinging, they were just flying all around me. I put things back together as quickly and carefully as I could. The bees have a lot of honey, so I stopped feeding the 1:1 sugar/water mix at this time.