The thought of pulling on the full bee suit, gloves, boots and veil was revolting (the temperature was 24C at 10am), but they had to do it. The swarm hive had to be cleaned up a bit before it got so bad that nothing could be done before Spring. But, Foolish is as Foolish Does, so Greg and Gord suited …
Stepping back, re-tooling, re-thinking, back in beesinus
Hey there, long time no hear. It’s been a tough year for us. We went into winter with 11 hives and came out with none. Yep, we lost everything. We feel every loss like a death in the family, but the one that upsets us the most was our last colony on Simcoe Island. Our survivor bees didn’t make it. That …