I had a break and ran over to the Stonehurst Place Inn to see how our bees were doing there. Both of the hives that went into winter were flying. There are less bees in the far hive than in the close hive but both were flying!
The small one box hive closest to the photographer is what remains of the huge hive that was robbed out and died. I left the one box as a swarm lure for swarms in the spring. Maybe it will happen.
I am so relieved to see all these bees. I know there are two living hives and perhaps three at my old house. I haven't checked in with Sebastian to see if the bees are flying at his house and I won't know about my Rabun County bees for a while. Right now I have at least 8 hives as spring is slowly getting here.
Whew.......
I never thought I'd be so excited to see bees, but I understand just what you felt when you saw them all flying. It makes me so happy. We hit the 50s yesterday and saw bees all over the bird seed, etc. Glad spring is coming.
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