I went to the annual Maine State Beekeepers Association meeting on October 19. It was interesting. Lots of good stuff on sale and in the raffles. The speakers were pretty good. The food was reasonable. The weather was great so we were all thinking we should be outside checking the bees, not inside. I didn't win anything in the raffles, bummer:) Learned some things. Spent some money on candy boards. Talked about Foyle's War and Doctor Who:)
I pulled the empty syrup bucket off of the Italian hive about 10 days (maybe longer) ago.
I pulled the syrup bucket off of the hybrid Russian hive at the beginning of this week before we got some very frosty weather. It still had some syrup in it.
I wasn't sure about whether to keep the buckets off or not so I emailed the YCBA googlegroup. The advice I got was to pull the buckets since the moisture is not a good thing in cold weather, and the bees can't take cleansing flights to get rid of waste products from the syrup.
Yesterday and today the temperatures are in the 60s so the bees can fly!
Listening to the boxes, they both seem to be OK.
I am going to set up the candy boards and put them on and wrap the hives around Thanksgiving.
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