Bees

It's been I long time since I posted on here so I figured it' about time I post. Tuesday I checked on my hives to add some more candy. I found out one is dead but the other one was doing well. We put an all season cover with candy in it on the one that was still alive.

The two hives. (The one on the right is the living one)

The hive that's still alive.


An all season cover with candy in it. We make candy and then pour it in.
Recipe:
1 pint of water.
5 pounds of sugar.
Stir while you let it heat up to 235 and then pour into molds(In my case the bottom of my cover)
1 cup of water and 2 1/2 pounds of sugar will do one cover. It takes about thirty minutes to harden.
Put a block in front of the entrance and ventilation hole before pouring so when you put it on the bees can still use the entrance.(And so it doesn't run out)


The top of the cover. In the winter I put insulation in here.


Side view. Here is a link to the plans for this type of cover.



Danny

H&H?

Hives and hawks? I'll let the pictures explain what was on my bee hive.

Danny

Update

Yesterday it was kind of snowing and getting cold so we put some bee cozies on my two hives. Later it started to really snow. Here's some pictures I took today.

Looking north/northeast


The snow on the old shop that was sliding off.


Russian olive tree.


Bee hive.


My two hives.



Danny

Deer

A few days ago I was just getting out of bed to go eat breakfast when I looked out my window; to my surprise A cute little face was looking at me! I told the rest of the family to look out the window, unfortunately before I could get a picture Sam barked and they ran off. Later I was finishing up my breakfast and looked out the window; they were back! This time I got some pictures. Now for the pictures.

A picture of the fawn from downstairs.

The doe really enjoyed the lilac leaves, even when we tapped on the window it was hard to get her to get her head out of them!

Doe and the fawn.

Danny

We're not the only ones who like watermelon

A few days ago we were taking down the electric fence around our garden. We had thrown out a few rotten watermelons previously and I noticed honey bees on them. After helping take down the fence I got the camera and took some pictures. Here they are.

One of the watermelons.

A few of the honeybees.

Bees drinking up the juice.

Mmm, yummy.

A couple more bees.

A chunk of watermelon with the bees on it.

More bees.

And... This is as close as I got to this watermelon with the wasps around.

Danny

Bees

I haven't posted on here for a long time so I took some pictures of my bees. Here they are.







Danny

Watermelon

Wow! Look at that whopper!(The watermelon)






Well, that might be a slight exaggeration of the real thing.

Danny