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🐝 Stings & Honey

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B got stung today. It was a beautiful day and the bees were busy, as busy as a well... Bee. She was outback checking their comings and goings when one flew into her hair. Once entangled in that mop the sting was inevitable. It was on top of her head, but the swelling moved down her face, so by the evening she looked like she had gone a couple of rounds with Mike Tyson. We were able to get the rest of the honey bottled up. The last bucket that we are going to sell at least. We still have a bucket of later Summer honey that we are going to keep for recipes and mead making. This is darker, heavier honey with a bit of an aftertaste, so we decided not to sell it. The girls also got another round of 1:1 syrup. No spirulina this time. They should be bringing in plenty of pollen from the blooming Maples. https://photos.app.goo.gl/tbdyDgVHL2sVXhw8A

🔨 Assembling & Dipping Boxes

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We put together some deeps this fine Spring-like day in mid-February. Managed to cob the table saw together enough by bypassing the switch in order to get some grooves cut inside some deep boxes in order to promote the bees to make propolis envelop in their brood box. We've been following some work by Dr. Marla Spivak that there may be some benefit to propolis and viral protection. We'll see, wasn't much of an investment in time so not much to lose. So now that the boxes are grooved, glued, and stapled, we then set out to get them dipped  Eco Wood Treatment . We also got a chance to get the bottoms dipped,  🔨 Bottom Boards , and the lids,  🔨 Lids . All but one lid that was placed on Hive 21 after being toppled by the tree falling incident,  🐝 Storm Damage , we will have to remember to get that dipped when we get a chance to get into some hives. Speaking of which, hopefully, the weather might cooperate enough this weekend. Forecasted to be 58° on Saturday may ...

🐝 They're Still Flying

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The weather still is weirdly warm, and the bees are busy & loud, In fact, I heard them on them from the screen room this morning ad was able to make out plenty of activity while eating lunch watching from the kitchen window. All this prompted me to take a stroll back there and have a look. They are some busy bees bringing in pollen. I swear they are doing orientation flights... All on January 6th!