Bee Housecleaning Update

A couple more pics showing how well hives have cleaned up, and how many dead bees have been dumped outside when the weather warmed up last few days. Now back into cold and snow, so hope they got the hives swept out.

Swarm hive on Tuesday. Still a porch full of dead bees.

Maria hive, porch all cleaned off.

Bring Out Your Dead

Fairly bad weather last month. One week of low temps, with one night at -19F. Light but persistent snow.

Last few days warmer, with one day 51 deg. Today presently 39 deg with clouds at 1030. Both hives making big effort to remove dead bees. Maria has dumped an impressive pile of bees onto ground just in front of the hive. Swarm has porch stacked with dead bees. Just a few bees in evidence at each hive doing the carrying out.

New Painting

Oil on panel, 12 x 18, 2013.

The Bees

Hives are settled down and waiting for winter. Not much activity outside the hive. Nights down to 30's, days up to 60's. In the warm sunny parts of the day some bees are out. Feeding sugar water, about half-and-half, which they are taking but slowly. When i ran the lawnmower under Maria a few bees came out to look. Maybe one bee took flight.

With the freezing nights there isn't much blooming in the neighborhood.

Not seeing any wasps.

Full Moon and Cows

Geranium

Comes Fall and you bring in the geraniums, they flower.

Exhibit at Holter

Here are some shots of the exhibit hung at the Holter.