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Thursday, March 15, 2007

It's Raining on my new Beehives

It's raining in Atlanta tonight and Proteus still doesn't have a telescoping lid or an inner cover (both arriving on Monday). So I have a bottom board on the top of the hive to protect it from the elements. And in looking at the bottom board (now on top) I was worried that rain may leak in on the brood through a crack between boards....so I took the top from the two nucs and made a makeshift cover for Proteus.
























I also replaced the 1:1 sugar syrup on each hive box. Proteus is draining its jar so I gave that hive a quart jar and the other two a pint. I hope the weak Bermuda makes it. The number of bees foraging from Mellona and Proteus was more than double the number leaving occasionally from Bermuda.
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