Friday, December 4, 2009

Feeding Bees - Dec 4, 2009

Temps approximately low 60s, sunny, and breezy.

I made a sugar pie for the bees. My intentions were to make sugar candy but the sugar syrup never reached hard ball candy stage and I ended with ewwwy goooey sugar syrup. So I mixed in some comb honey I had from my bees, confectionary sugar, and the sugar syrup. It turned out to be a pie. I put the yummy pies into the hives and girls loved it. Only four hive beetles were located and killed.

The bees appeared to be healthy so it was a good day. Reduced the entrance to prevent mice and other critters from entering the hives.
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