Monday, April 14, 2014

2014 Hive 1 (died out early april)

Hive status:  Overwintered from 2013 (2013 Hive 1 then)
Hive origin:  2012 Swarm from Alan
Queen type: 2013 Queen raised from eggs from swarm queen from 2012

Significant events/observations:

This hive overwintered in 2013 which was a brutally cold winter.  Fed pollen patty about March 10.

4/8/14: Reversed hive bodies around April 8.  Bees were all on 3 frames in the shallow, very small colony.  Put an empty deep hive body above it, and removed an empty deep hive body (down to a shallow and deep, shallow on bottom).

4/16/14:  This hive died out in early April.  Too small, I guess.


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